Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Newstone, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newstone
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.87383, -6.68361
- SMR number
- ME003-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1908 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a Standing Stone. It is situated at the summit of the steep-sided Druminshin Hill. This is a narrow stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims at base 0.43m E-W; 0.23m N-S; H 1.8m). The top had broken off and it was repaired with pitch, while field stones have been gathered around its base. The stone is now leaning to the S and it could be a modern scratching-post.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 August, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.