Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Whitfield North, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitfield North
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pillar Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.22485, -7.21072
- SMR number
- WA017-006----
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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 on a broad low hill on the E side of the valley of the S-N Ballymoat stream, with the stream c. 400m to the W. A stone with a diamond-shaped cross-section (L of sides at ground level 0.72-0.77m; max. H 3.4m at S) is oriented ENE-SSW. An overhanging pinnacle at S gives it the appearance of a harp, hence its name 'The Harp Stone' (Carroll 1985, 23-4). It may be the standing stone recorded in association with the discovery of the urn burial (WA017-106----).
Carroll, J, S, (1985) Antiquities of Lisnakill parish. Decies, No. 30, 20-24.
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 upload/revision: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.