Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Clonaspoe, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonaspoe
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55084, -8.01430
- SMR number
- TS052-050----
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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 high ground, in grassland. There are good views in all directions. A ringfort (TS052-051----) lies 100m to the SSE. Depicted as a standing stone on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. A limestone standing stone (0.52m x 0.17m; H 1.84m), rectangular in plan and orientated ENE-WSW. The top of the stone slopes slightly upwards towards the ENE. There is a depression around the base of the stone due to cattle erosion. One of a group of three intervisible standing stones, with TS052-073---- 370m to the NE and TS052-072---- 520m to the N.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.