Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Carrigeen (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.51483, -8.74641
- SMR number
- LI030-017----
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
On a gently sloping ridge in pasture with excellent views to the W, N and E, 750m NE of the townland boundary with Dollas. Ring-barrow (LI030-016----) located 140m to SW. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map nor is it depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. It is annotated ‘stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. The site is visible as a small oval enclosure in pasture on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 (ext. dims. c. 16m N-S; 19m E-W); it is not visible on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Neither the stone nor enclosure is visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/02/2009; 31/12/2016 or 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 28 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.