Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Coum (allen), County Tipperary North, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.