Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Toorfiba, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toorfiba
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.71349, -8.06719
- SMR number
- TN039-001001-
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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
Located on a gradual, subtle break on a NW-facing slope, in hilly pasture with a ring-barrow (TN039-001002/003) 3.6m to the SW. A standing stone of limestone composition, roughly triangular in plan, (H 1.44m; dims. 0.87m x 0.5m) aligned on a NE-SW axis. The stone tapers towards the top where part of a layer has broken away. It is quite spalled at the top. There is a grassy hummock at the base of the NW side but no evidence of stone packing.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.