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
- 53.74542, -7.11633
- SMR number
- ME015-123----
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)
- 1869 · 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
Situated on a knoll on the steep NW-facing slope of Carnbane East or Slieve na Callliagh. An upright stone (dims of base 0.47m x 0.2m; H 1.1m) is oriented ENE-WSW.
See the attached view from SSW
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 20 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.