Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Cool (coshmore And Coshbride By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool (coshmore And Coshbride By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16239, -7.99753
- SMR number
- WA020-022----
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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
Situated on a W-facing slope. This is the possible original location of a stone which was thought to have been set up as a scratching post. It was removed c. 18m to the S and re-erected as a gate post (WA020-031----), where it remains as a conglomerate sandstone upright (dims. 0.5m x 0.28m; H 1.23m). The stone tapers towards the top and has a sloping shoulder. A socket (0.05m x 0.02m) to receive a gate bar has been carved into the stone 0.68m above ground on its current NE face. This may have been known to Power (1952, 41) as a dallán.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
References
Power, P. 1952 The placenames of the Decies (second ed.). Cork University Press.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.