Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Forristeen, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forristeen
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.05685, -6.68163
- SMR number
- WI015-017----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On a gentle SE-facing slope. A disused quarry pit. No visible surface trace of the two granite boulders described in 1931. (Walsh 1931, 128)
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 20 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.