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Standing stone - pair

Baurnadomeeny, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone - pair, Baurnadomeeny, 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
Baurnadomeeny
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68378, -8.20673
SMR number
TN038-023001-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the break of a N-facing slope in upland, mountainous terrain, formerly rough pasture. The stone pair is on the bank of an embanked barrow which is completely surrounded by coniferous forest, with grass and rushes growing on the monument. View dominated by Mother Mountain to the N, impeded by coniferous forestry to the E and S and blocked by rising slope to W. 

A stone pair aligned NE-SW, composed of grey Silurian sandstone, identified and reported by Derek Ryan. The stone to the SE is taller (H 1m) and roughly square in plan (max. Wth at base 0.63m x 0.62m) though possibly due to erosion the S side is badly spalled, giving a stepped appearance (base appears as an irregular pentagon Wth N 0.63m; E 0.62m; SE 0.36m; SW 0.26m; W 0.48m). The top of the stone is also quite eroded but does slope upwards towards the SW. The lower stone (H 0.68m), 0.2m to the SW, is roughly triangular in plan (base Wth at NW 0.3m; E 0.91m; SW 0.62m), tapering upwards to a SW peak. There is a raised trackway S of the stone pair, running across the barrow from WNW to ESE.

 

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Nearby in the register

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

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