Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Rathealy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathealy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69288, -7.42771
- SMR number
- KK013-061----
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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
On floor of small NW-SE valley. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 497) this standing stone was known as the ''Sthooic-Rawhaeola' [stook of Rathealy] or pointed rock of Rathealy', 'a pillar stone, 7 feet [2.1m] high, a few hundred yards east of the church [KK013-060001-]. It is said to have been thrown here all the way from Slievenamon by one of the old Irish giants'.
The standing stone (L 2.7m; 0.5m by 0.3m) originally stood in a field c. 230m SW of its present location (KK013-145----). At some stage it was moved up near the farmyard, then moved again to facilitate the construction of a silage dump (OPW files). It had been leaning against a tree in the farmyard before being placed upright in its present location.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 20 July 2015
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.