Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Altar
Tober, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tober
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Altar (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.12914, -8.05175
- SMR number
- WA028-002002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 at the N edge of a plateau overlooking the Blackwater river valley to the N, and just outside the perimeter of rath (WA028-002001-) at NW. 'St Carthage's Stone Altar' which is described as a piece of masonry outside the bank (OS Name Book, 53) can no longer be found.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 26 July 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.