Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Newtown (decies Within Drum By., Ardmore Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (decies Within Drum By., Ardmore Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.99711, -7.73086
- SMR number
- WA038-059----
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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
Located on a gentle E-facing slope at the head of a NW-SE valley, with the headwaters of a stream c. 100m to the SE. This is a stone with a rectangular cross-section and smooth W and S faces (dims. 0.35m x 0.2m; H 1.4m) oriented N-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: 10th October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.