Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Piperstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piperstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.78352, -6.36040
- SMR number
- LH021-024----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in flat pasture. Large block of limestone (max. dims. H 2.5m, 1.7m by 1.5m in section) with long axis orientated NNW-SSE. The ENE face of the stone is covered by small depressions resembling cup marks, but these appear to be natural solution-holes.
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
See the attached view from E
Date of upload: 17 July 2007
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.