Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Fanningstown (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanningstown (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58043, -8.60218
- SMR number
- LI022-043004-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Standing stone described in 1943 as 'a small irregularly shaped boulder of volcanic breccia. It is 3' [0.9m] high by 3' [0.9m] wide by 1' 9" [0.53m] thick. It is beside the graveyard [LI022-043002-]'(O'Kelly 1943, 225).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 January 2019
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.