Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Mullenbeg, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullenbeg
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41347, -7.29848
- SMR number
- KK035-082----
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
This was listed in the SMR (1987) as a ‘megalithic structure possible’. The source of this classification is a feature named ‘Stone’ on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (1839). The name is not represented in the Gothic-style font used at that time to denote antiquities. This ‘Stone’ was not recorded on any subsequent OS map and no visible trace of this ‘Stone’ survived when the site was inspected in 1989. While the classification assigned to this record in the SMR (1987) could be taken to infer that this formed part of a possible ‘megalithic structure’ and the connotations that this implies, the evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting it as such. The name ‘Stone’ suggests a single upright and this may be a standing stone (see KK038-008----) though this does not necessarily indicate that it is of any great antiquity.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.