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Standing stone

Burgagery-Lands East, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Burgagery-Lands East, 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
Burgagery-Lands East
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.35890, -7.69472
SMR number
TS083-034----

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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

Identified during construction work for a housing development on the NE outskirts of Clonmel (Elder 2003, 381). On a slight rise and c. 750m N of the River Suir. According to Elder (ibid.) the standing stone (0.43m x 0.19m; H 1.25m), rectangular in plan, appears to be of quarried granite and partially dressed. Elder (ibid.) noted on the NW angle 'traces of a possible ogham inscription, although this is quite weathered and difficult to determine'. He also noted that, 'it is likely that the stone was transported by a former landowner from an as yet unknown location, but possibly a nearby enclosure site, (TS083-023----)' (ibid.). The stone was removed and its current location is unknown. If the stone is composed of dressed granite then it is likely to be a scratching post erected in the 19th or 20th century.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 March 2020

References

Elder, S. 2003 King Street, Clonmel: standing stone. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 381. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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