Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Knocklegan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklegan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallan
- Coordinates
- 52.60968, -7.26957
- SMR number
- KK023-008----
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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) describe, 'In the Townland of Knockaliagain, i.e., the Hill of the Standing Stone, is a large rock reclining against a wall or ditch, measuring seven and a half feet [2.27m] in height over ground, two feet ten inches [0.87m] in breadth at bottom, one and a half feet [0.45m] at top and one foot [0.3m] in thickness' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 267 (90)). O'Kelly (1969, 179) describes it as, 'The liagán, an uncarved and uninscribed land-stone column'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
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.
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.