Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Lismoynan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismoynan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghleigh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghleigh
- Coordinates
- 52.51599, -7.64843
- SMR number
- TS062-068----
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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
In fallow tillage, on a NW-facing slope 270m below the summit of Knockapharson hill and just above a 500ft contour. There are excellent views from W-N-E. According to local information, 'Cloghleigh' is a substantial natural boulder c. 10 tonnes in weight. It was moved in recent years downslope to the NE, into the W end of a grove of cypress trees where it currently rests, overgrown with briars. On both the 1st (1840) and 1903-04 ed. OS 6-inch map the stone is depicted immediately E of a field boundary running NE-SW which, together with the stone, has since been removed. The field where the stone stood is known locally as the 'The Rock Field'. It is likely that 'Cloghleigh' refers to a natural boulder and not a standing stone.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.