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Standing stone

Croan Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Croan Lower, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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