Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Raheens, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheens
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21405, -7.25070
- SMR number
- WA016-112----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Situated towards the top of an E-facing slope at the head of a small NW-SE valley. A local stone with a rectangular cross-section and a pointed top (dims. 0.35m x 0.3m; H 2.4m) is oriented NNW-SSE. Standing stone (WA016-113----) is c. 100m to the S.
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: 22nd December 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.