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Standing stone

Balloughton, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Balloughton, County Wexford, 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
Balloughton
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Gallaun
Coordinates
52.24639, -6.72567
SMR number
WX046-014----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a level landscape. This is a granite stone with veins of quartz and a rectangular cross-section (dims. 1.4m NNE-SSW; 1m WNW-ESE; H 3m). A description of cupmarks (Kinahan 1883-4a 234-5; 1883-4c) and of an ogham inscription (Macalister 1949, vol. 1, 47-8) cannot be endorsed.

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: 16 August, 2013

References

Kinahan, G.H. 1883-4c Notes and queries: Bannow standing stone, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 16, 39-40.

Kinahan, G. H. 1884 Proceedings - On cup-marked and inscribed stones in the counties of Wicklow and Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 16, 222-35.

Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

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

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