Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Baurnadomeeny, County Tipperary North, Ireland
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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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 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
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.