Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Sheskin (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheskin (upperthird By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33793, -7.44473
- SMR number
- WA003-086001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located at the N edge of a plateau overlooking the Suir river valley. Two conglomerate stones both oriented N-S and placed 0.55m apart form a N-S alignment. Both the N stone (dims. 0.6m x 0.5m; H 1m) and the S stone (dims. 0.9m x 0.5m; H 1.35m) have rectangular cross-sections.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 14 March 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.