Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Balnagon Upper, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balnagon Upper
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72180, -6.97749
- SMR number
- ME016-053----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a rise in an undulating landscape. This is a rectangular limestone upright (dims 0.5m x 0.25-0.3ml; H 1.4m) aligned NNE-SSW and hammered into a rough rectangular shape. Standing stone (ME016-052----) is c. 200m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.