Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Crehelp, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crehelp
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07220, -6.62965
- SMR number
- WI015-006----
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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
Listed as a 'standing stone' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'children's burial ground' in the RMP (1995). A roughly dressed granite pillar (H 1.77m; 0.27m x 0.26m), pierced by a rectangular slot (H 0.23m; Wth 0.11m) through the E and W faces c. 52cm from the top, reputedly marks the grave of Prince Aralt (Harold) one of the Danish chieftains killed in the Battle of Glenmama. It is also believed that the corner of the field in which the stone now stands was formerly a burial ground. (Walshe 1931, 135)
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 19 December 2012
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 115/1940).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.