Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Scraggeen, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scraggeen
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Long Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.68334, -8.37583
- SMR number
- TN037-036----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low hillock in an upland area with the Clare River nearby to SE. Two stones, aligned NNE-SSW, standing 0.73m apart. The NE stone measures 0.9m H; 0.38m x 0.97m. The SW stone measures 0.9m; 0.44m x 0.9m and is partly collapsed, tilting towards the NE stone. Packing-stones are visible at the base of both stones.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.