Standing stone

The National Monuments Service's description

On flat undulating pasture within an open field. Possible standing stone annotated ‘Cloghroenapeastia’ on 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. The area is now overgrown and a tree marks the location marked on the OS maps. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following details about this monument; 'Clogh rhoo na Pistia, or The Red Worm's Stone, or The Serpent's Stone. A serpent is said to have had its abode under a stone here, but St. Patrick is said to have cut it in two, whereupon the two parts sprang off to a bog near the Shannon, into which they sank. The hole they made in sinking existed till a few years ago and was called Pul na Pest Rooa (Poll na Péiste Ruaidhe, the hole of the red serpent' (OSNB Stradbally Parish, 1629; O'Flanagan 1929, 22).

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Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 10 July 2020

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1929 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Limerick collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Bray

OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.