Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballyknock, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknock
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52880, -7.87336
- SMR number
- TS061-154----
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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 SE-facing slope of Ballyknock Hill, in improved pasture. There are good views from E-NW. An upright limestone stone (0.48m x 0.41; H 1.52m), rectangular in plan and orientated ENE-WSW. It leans to the NNE. There is one large packing stone and others may be obscured by grass tufts. There is a depression around the base of the stone due to cattle erosion. O'Brien (2006, 16-17) describes a number of stones protruding from the ground immediately N of the standing stone as possible packing stones or a possible cist (0.4m x 0.5m) formed by two short side stones and lone long stone, with the base of the standing stone forming the back.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Brien, R. 2006 Cashel antiquities rediscovered - standing stones. Tipperary Historical Journal, 15-23.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.