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Forenaghts Great, County Kildare, Ireland

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Townland
Forenaghts Great
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.22245, -6.60163
SMR number
KD019-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

Found in 1975 during ploughing c. 100m S of Furness Church (KD019-024001-) in the graveyard of which (KD019-024002-) it now lies and is designated KD019-024003-. A boulder of local metamorphosed greywacke (dims. L 1.33m; Wth 0.97m; T 0.50m) is decorated on one face with a pattern of six groups of concentric circles, cupmarks and combinations of both. (Shee 1975-6, 496-500; Meagher 1974-9, 118)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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