Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Emper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60185, -7.58146
- SMR number
- WM010-004001-
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 gently undulating grassland with poorly drained rushy land in the vicinity. Ringfort (WM010-005---) 120m to SE. A possible standing stone (H 1.1m) which may have been re-used as a scratching post is visible standing in the S quadrant of the interior of a ringfort (WM010-004---).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.