Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Galboola, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Galboola
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.53438, -8.44426
- SMR number
- LI023-307----
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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
In pasture, on an E-facing slope. Upright stone (H 1.05m) of limestone is sub-rectangular in plan (L 0.57m; T 0.28m); long-axis E-W. Natural fissures at base of E and W-face. Roughly rectangular in elevation, narrowing slightly towards the top. Edges smooth from cattle scratching and a slight depression around stone caused by cattle poaching.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 31 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.