Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Punchestown Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Punchestown Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Long Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Long Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.19184, -6.62853
- SMR number
- KD024-009001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A National Monument (No. 305). The stone had fallen towards the NE and before its re-erection in 1934, detailed drawings were done and its socket was excavated which revealed a small cist (KD024-009002-) at SW (Leask 1937, 250-52). On slightly elevated ground in good pasture. A tall tapering granite pillar (total H. 7m; lower L 0.96m N-S; Wth 0.65m) with the lower portion (H 1.2m) set into a socket, and weighing some nine tons (ibid.). (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 384; Harbison 1975, 126; Weir 1980, 167)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 11 June 2012
References
Weir, A. 1980 Early Ireland: a field guide. Belfast. Blackstaff Press.
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
Harbison, P. 1975 (2nd. ed. 1992 reprint) Guide to the national monuments in the Republic of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.