Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Croan Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croan Lower
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35453, -7.67968
- SMR number
- TS083-021006-
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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
Near the N edge of a roughly E-W running ridge, c. 60m S of the River Suir which runs parallel to the ridge, in pasture. There is a field boundary immediately E of the standing stone with a factory complex on the other side to the E. A sandstone standing stone (max. 0.38m x 0.26m; H 1.23m) rectangular in plan and orientated NNE-SSW. The stone tapers to a point. It is broadest in the middle and narrows to a rectangular base (0.29m x 0.23m). The surface is spawled, though both broad faces are fairly flat. There are several large fractures and evidence of where stone has fractured off at the SW and NW angles, towards the base. There is also a bad crack 0.5m above ground level on the S face, the W end of which rises up through the stone. There are some grass clumps around the base of the stone but no evidence of any packing stones.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Weir - regulatingunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.