Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Blessington Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blessington Demesne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pipers Stones (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.17299, -6.55005
- SMR number
- WI005-014----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the foot of a small hill on level ground. Local tradition of a stone circle destroyed before 1838. No visible remains. (O'Flanagan 1928, 116)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - ornamental lakeunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.