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Standing stone

Monaghanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Monaghanstown, County Westmeath, 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
Monaghanstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Standing Stone
Latest-edition OS map
Standing Stone
Coordinates
53.44717, -7.46119
SMR number
WM032-019----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Monument surveyed by ASI in 1976 and described as following; 'The stone has been levelled and now lies in a thicket of thorn trees and briars in the corner of the NNW-SSE field fence (post and wire) shown on the OS 6-inch map. A new roadway (narrow gravelled) has been made just E of this fence and it runs through the site of the standing stone and of an OS trig. station marking 327 ft OD. The stone (L c. 2m) is very difficult to examine because of the overgrowth. It appears to be a large rectilinear sectioned block of granite (?). It is now lying along with other smaller stones in a clump of thorns in a corner of the field fence immediately NW of its position as marked on the 1914 ed. OS 6-inch map. The site was on top of a prominent hill in pasture land. Immediately SW of the stone lie the ruins of a stone strcuture marked 'Lodge' on the 1914 ed. OS 6-inch map’(SMR File 18/09/1976). A second report from 1976 records that the stone measured '2.1m in length, 70cm wide and 80cm thick at base tapering to 45cm in width at top. It has been split in antiquity on one side and the other side is unshapen' (SMR File 28/10/1976).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 13 February 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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