Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Baltray, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltray
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing Stones
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stones
- Coordinates
- 53.74078, -6.26586
- SMR number
- LH025-002----
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 on edge of ridge, overlooking raised beach and sea to E. The NMI topographical file records three stones at the site, but only two are now visible. The two stones are large, shaley slabs set 9m apart. The N stone is the smaller (H 1.8m, 0.9m by 0.4m in section), orientated NW-SE. The S stone (H 2.9m, 1.2m by 0.3m in section) is also orientated NW-SE.
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 N
Date of upload: 17 July 2007
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.