Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Gravelstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gravelstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75203, -6.81677
- SMR number
- ME011-046002-
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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)
- 1799 · 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
Located on a fairly level, low-lying landscape. A stone (dims c. 0.5m x c. 0.2m; H c. 1.5m) has a roughly pointed top and is generally aligned NE-SW. Standing stone (ME011-046001-) is c. 70m to the WNW and the site of standing stone (ME011-047----) is c. 100m to the ENE, but this stone appears to have been removed (OSAP).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 10 April, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.