Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Rathosheen, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathosheen
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77599, -7.60850
- SMR number
- KK008-140----
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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
The OS Letters (1839) refer to the southern ringfort (KK008-042----) in the townland of Rathosheen, which, 'is said to have been the burial place of that Hero-Bard. His grave was marked in it by two upright stones at several years distance but the place was dug up several years ago by money dreamers and the stones carried away by some wicked man who had not the fear of Oisinn or the fairies before his eyes, but he died since, tho' not very old! I could wish he had gone before he disturbed my old friends bones. Nothing remains now to mark the grave but a circular hollow in the south western part of the Rath' (O’Flanagan (ed.) 1930, 118-19 (40)). Being located within a ringfort these cannot be prehistoric standing stones, unless the enclosure is not a ringfort. However, as standing stones most accurately reflects what is described in the OS letters, the classification has been retained.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.