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Standing stone

Coum (Allen), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Coum (Allen), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coum (Allen)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.85535, -8.33255
SMR number
TN020-162----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

On a NE-facing slope in hilly upland terrain, in pasture. There is a stream at the base of the slope to the NE, and a hill rises immediately opposite. View is impeded by the rise of slope to the N and W, good through a gap in the hills towards the Silvermines Mountains to the E, and restricted by the opposite hill slope to the S. 

A standing stone with a long axis oriented NE-SW, composed of grey Silurian sandstone. It is roughly hexagonal in plan but slightly rounded on the SE side (Wth NW 0.30m; NE 0.35m; SE 0.45m; S 0.26m; SW 0.40m; W 0.35m; max L 0.71m; max Wth 0.47m; H 0.76m on NW side, 0.90m on SE side), and leans towards the SE. The NE face of the stone has a noticeably steep, clean cut aspect. There is a small hole in the stone’s NW face, c. 0.48m above its base (Wth 0.025m; D 0.25m). To the SW of the hole on the same NW face is a vertical, natural rebate (D c. 0.03m). 

 

Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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