Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boundary stone
Dyrick Upper, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dyrick Upper
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dukes Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.22728, -7.87605
- SMR number
- WA012-002----
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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 as 'Duke's Stone' on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated at the edge of a broad ridge, and at the crest of a severe NE-facing slope. This is a large subrectangular stone (dims. 0.8m x 0.35m; H 1.2m) incorporated into the S face of the stone-clad sod wall (WA011-007----) that forms the boundary with Co. Tipperary (TS091-021----) and is also the bounds of the Lismore estate as mapped by Richard Scalé in 1774. It is at a point where the boundary changes direction. The Lismore lands were acquired in 1753 by William Cavendish, the fourth Duke of Devonshire, through his wife, Lady Charlotte Boyle, the heiress of the fourth Earl of Cork. The 'Duke's Stone' may refer to the fourth Duke or any of his heirs.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 30 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Boundary stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - radial-stone cairnunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.