Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Coffin-resting stone
Ballykinsella, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykinsella
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Conans Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Conans Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.19002, -7.12478
- SMR number
- WA017-059----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 bottom of a NW-facing slope at the NE side of a SE-NW laneway and c. 25m from its junction with another NNNE-SSW road. It is described locally as a spherical boulder (diam. c. 1m) traditionally believed to have been thrown by a giant from Carriglong passage tomb (WA017-057----) (Heylin 1978, 14). According to local information coffins were rested on it en route to Drumcannon church (WA026-017001-), c. 450m to the SE. It is now missing.
Heylin, F. (1978) Reports of the Summer outings and Winter lectures: Drumcannon cromlech, Decies, No. 7, 13-15.
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: 06 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.