Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Balloughton, County Wexford, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.