Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Monbay Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monbay Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.68144, -6.41753
- SMR number
- WX006-054----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a standing stone only on 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a W-facing slope at the head of a small E-W valley and on the W side of a N-S road bank. It was described in 1940 as a subrectangular stone (dims c. 1-1.15m x 0.2-0.6m; H c. 0.7-0.9m) (OSFM). It was described locally in 1987 as being c. 1.2m high, and it was removed c. 1970 when it was buried in under a farmyard (WX006-088----) c. 60m to the NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 21 November, 2012
References
OSFM. Ordnance Survey Field Memorandums. A collection of survey notes and descriptions of monuments on pro-forma sheets compiled by Ordnance Survey field staff in the course of the 1:2500 map revision of various counties, mostly dating from 1931 – early 1960s. These unpublished manuscripts form part of the records of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service Archive, Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.