Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Curraheen (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraheen (upperthird By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29533, -7.55865
- SMR number
- WA006-061----
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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 on a gentle E-facing slope of the foothills on the NE-facing slope of the Comeragh Mountains. Conglomerate stone with a diamond-shaped cross-section (dims. 1.15m x 0.5m; H 1.75m) oriented NE-SW and utilised as a gate pier in a field bank. The field bank, including the gate pier, have been removed since 1989.
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: 09 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.