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Standing stone

Knockballyfookeen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Knockballyfookeen, 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
Knockballyfookeen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.55304, -8.31798
SMR number
LI024-290----

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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 low-lying gently undulating, rough pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 225m E of a townland boundary with Ballyhurst. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Ring-barrows (LI024-266/-053001-) are 50m and 80m to SW, respectively. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a single upright stone (H 1.15m) of limestone which is orientated with its long-axis N-S. The stone is trapezoidal in plan (max. L 0.45m; max. Wth 0.38m) and tilts toward E. The W-face steps inwards, just below a pointed apex. The surfaces of the elevations are smooth in places due to cattle scratching. Monument is visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 14 October 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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