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Stone circle

Tornant Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle, Tornant Upper, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tornant Upper
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04296, -6.69542
SMR number
WI015-037----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On the saddle of a rocky E-W ridge with a marked slope to the S. A scatter of mainly split quartz boulders to the NE of enclosure (WI015-038----) which may be part of a displaced revetment. One of the boulder fragments has a curved groove (Wth 0.02m; D 0.01m) on its flat upper surface. Price (1934, 38-39) mentions that the 'circle' had a diameter of 'about 120 feet' (c. 36.5m) and was formed by twelve stones nearly all broken by blasting. A single large stone ocurs to the SW (of WI015-038----).

Compiled by: Matt Kelleher

Date of upload: 21 December 2012

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 150/1940).

References

Price, L. 1934 The ages of stone and bronze in Co. Wicklow, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 42C, 31-64.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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