Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Kinsellastown, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinsellastown
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07746, -6.63802
- SMR number
- WI015-089----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a low knoll in undulating terrain. A granite pillar (H 1.4m; Wth 0.26,; T 0.24m) with a roughly square cross section. There are notches or scars from stone splitting along the NW angle. Known locally as the Danish King's stone and possibly associated with the Battle of Glen Mama.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 10 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.