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Standing stone

Elmpark Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Elmpark Demesne, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Elmpark Demesne
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62688, -8.74339
SMR number
LI012-149----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In pasture within the former grounds of Elmpark Demesne, 175m S of Barnakyle River that marks the townland boundary with Doon. Not depicted on either the 1840 0S 6-inch map or the 1897 25-inch OS map. Identified by Paul O’Keeffe, Mid-West National Road Design Office when it was described as following; ‘Found on foot of landowner submission regarding the proposed Foynes to Limerick Road Scheme. A limestone upright a little over a metre high' (pers. comm. P. O’Keeffe, 2015). Visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 with traces of relic field boundaries to N and W.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 2 July 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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