Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Cloghnagaune, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnagaune
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Head Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Head Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.95185, -6.63137
- SMR number
- WI027-031001-
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
Situated on a gentle N-facing slope beside a stream, c. 280m SW of 'St. Bridgets Chair' (WI027-031002-). About two-thirds of a large circular stone, part of an unfinished millstone (present dims. Wth 1.4m; H 0.9m; T 0.55m). It has a central boring (diam. 0.22m) which contains coins and medals. The stone is sitting on its curved side, propped up with small stones. Possibly associated with the ecclesiastical site at Colvinstown Upper (WI027-034----) some 700m to the S.
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
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 112/1940).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.