Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
MacEtown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacEtown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53752, -7.28373
- SMR number
- WM019-042----
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 in a low lying area of pasture, overlooking bog to S and overlooked by higher ground to N. Annotated as a standing stone on 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map but not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. No trace of any standing stone visible on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 03 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.