Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Court (Kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Court (Kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62017, -8.78225
- SMR number
- LI012-146----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a hillock in a pasture field in an area of low lying land the stone (0.38m wide x 0.20m thick and 2.13m high) is aligned N-S and leans slightly to the N. It is evident that this stone has been quarried using the plug and feather technique as two notches for such are visible on its E face. As such it seem likely that it was set up as a scratching post for cattle within the last century. (Curtin 2008)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 1 May 2015
References
Curtin J. 2008 Two Unrecorded Standing Stones in West Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 48, 143-4.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.