Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Whitechurch, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitechurch
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.32704, -6.95901
- SMR number
- WX034-071----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Just off the crest of a low NW-SE ridge on the NE-facing slope overlooking a col c. 300m to the NE with a higher hill c. 700m to the NNW and the summit of Slievecoiltia c. 1.7 km to the NE. It is also just inside a NE-SW road bank. This is a granite stone oriented E-W (dims. c. 1.6m x c. 1m; H 2.3m).
The abpve 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: 14 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.