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Standing stone

Cahirguillamore (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Cahirguillamore, 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
Cahirguillamore (Coshma By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Standing Stone
Latest-edition OS map
Standing Stone (site of) (1927)
Coordinates
52.50724, -8.57166
SMR number
LI031-041013-

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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 pasture, on the former deer park of Cahir Guillamore demesne, 50m S of a townland boundary and 110m W of a townland boundary with Rockbarton. Within southern quadrant of a field system (LI031-041001-) and within a deserted medieval settlement (LI031-041009-), 55m SE of a cashel (LI031-041010-). Annotated ‘Standing stone’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map.
Monument described in 1840 by O'Donovan as follows; 'At a distance of about twon hundred and twenty seven paces [180m] eastward of the second ring of stones [LI031-041016-] there is a standing stone seven feet [2.1m] high, three feet four inches [1m] wide at the top and middle and five and a half feet [1.7m] in width at the lower part. The original flag seems to have been split to within three feet [0.9m] from the bottom and two and a half feet [0.76m] from the east side and on the west side from top to bottom. The upper part is about fifteen inches [0.38m] thick, the lower about twenty two inches [0.55m]' (OSL Tullabracky Parish, 35). According to Ó Ríordáin and Hunt (1942, 41), ‘Immediately south-east of this fort [Fort A; LI031-041010-] a Standing Stone is shown; this has now disappeared, and we were informed locally that it had been used in the construction of one of the modern Land Commission houses erected nearby’. Monument has been removed to another location and is not visible today on modern aerial photography.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016 and black and white aerial image with site of monument numbered 13.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 5 November 2020

References

Ó Ríordáin, S. P. & Hunt, J. 1942 Mediaeval dwellings at Caherguillamore, Co. Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 37-63.

OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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