Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Longstone (cullen Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longstone (cullen Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51241, -8.29072
- SMR number
- TS058-079----
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
On a slight NW-facing slope on the NW side of a small gently sloping hillock, in undulating pasture. The standing stone (TS058-023004-) at Longstone Hill is visible 800m to the SW. A fine-grained sandstone standing stone (W0.38m x 0.33m; H 1.15m), rectangular in plan. It is solidly set with no packing stones visible. The upper portion of the stone tapers to a point. The surface of the stone is weathered.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.