Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkeale
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52856, -8.93584
- SMR number
- LI029-029----
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 pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Squat deeply-fissured limestone boulder (H 0.95m; Wth 0.9m; girth 2.9m), with long axis N-S, inclining gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.