Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Mountminnett, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountminnett
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55401, -8.43314
- SMR number
- LI023-295----
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
In low-lying, wet ground, cut by land drains and watercourses and which has been planted with forestry. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a standing stone by Rose M. Cleary of the Archaeology Department, UCC. Remains consist of a low, upright pillar stone with a narrow rectangular-shaped elevation, in rough pasture, prior to planting of forestry. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018, where area of standing stone is enclosed within a forestry exclusion zone.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and photograph provided by Rose M. Cleary.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.