Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Tops, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tops
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing stone
- Coordinates
- 54.85015, -7.60432
- SMR number
- DG070-026002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located to the SE of Beltany stone circle (DG070-026002-) (National Monument Number No. 463), which is situated on the summit of Beltany Hill, is an out-lying standing stone 2m high. Boyle-Somerville (1909) suggested that this outlier as well as other features of the adjacent horizon were employed by the circle builders to determine astronomical alignments.
The above description was derived (p. 73, no. 329) from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
References
Boyle-Somerville, T. 1909 Ancient stone monuments near Lough Swilly, County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 39, 192-202 and 215-33.
Nearby in the register
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.