Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Corstown (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corstown (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74451, -7.11162
- SMR number
- ME015-012008-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the summit of Slieve na Calliagh, 1.4m WNW of the kerb of Cairn V (ME015-012005-). This is a large upright stone (dims of base 1.6m x 0.15m at S to 0.5m at N) aligned NNE-SSW with an undulating crest (max. H 1.4m). A quartz stone that had been used as a maul was found in digging at the base of the stone (Conwell 1866, 374; 1873, 67; Herity 1974, 243).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 14 January 2019
References
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Conwell, E. A. 1866 On Ancient Sepulchral Cairns on the Loughcrew Hills. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1864-66) 355-79.
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