Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Jamestown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jamestown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.32910, -8.58094
- SMR number
- LI055-040----
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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 a conifer plantation, on steep N-facing slope. Possible burial mound (LI055-026----) lies 235m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. According to local information this stone known locally as the ‘Giant’s rock’ which is associated with the following story ‘of two giants who fought on plain to NE of site, one fled and the other hurled this stone after him. The giants fingers are visible on the stone’ Inaccessible due to overgrowth. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 17 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.