Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boundary stone
Knocknacreha, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknacreha
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloch na gCrann
- Coordinates
- 52.30570, -7.50471
- SMR number
- WA003-045001-
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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
Marked only on the 1926 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as Clogh na gCrann, it is more correctly called 'Cloch na gCeann'. Originally situated at the E side of a road towards the top of a S-facing slope. This is a sandstone boulder (dims. c. 1m x 1m x 1m) on which it is believed the heads of executed criminals were once displayed. It is now on the W side of the W road bank (WA003-107----), c. 30m distant from its original location .
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 20 July 2010
Nearby in the register
- Boundary stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.