Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Garrincreen, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrincreen
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK019-066----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to the OS Letters (1839), 'A few perches [perch = 5m] northeast of this ruin [medieval church KK019-014001-] stands a pillar stone measuring about eleven feet [3.34m] in height, four feet eight inches [1.42m] in breadth and one foot three inches [0.37m] in thickness, with an opening through its middle near the top. They call this the Long Stone in English but Liagan in Irish' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 2, 82 (27)). There is standing stone in the field immediately NE of the church and graveyard (KK019-014002-), which includes a radius of c. 150m from the church. The precise location of this standing stone within the field is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 October 2020
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.