Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Highpark, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Highpark
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60457, -8.51169
- SMR number
- LI014-140----
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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 in a gentle depression on the steep N-facing slope of a ridge in rolling pasture with good views in all directions. Upright conglomerate slab (H 2-2.2m; Wth 1.3-1.9m; Th. 0.4m), long axis orientated NE-SW. It is concave on the SE face and flat on the N face. The stone is partially obscured at the base by brambles.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 28 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.