Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Eardownes Great, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eardownes Great
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.20815, -6.37282
- SMR number
- WX053-019----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a standing stone, it is situated just off the top of a slight SW facing slope and it is now within a cemetery. This is a granite stone with a subrectangular cross section at the base (dims. 0.75m x 0.06 0.46m) which is aligned ENE-WSW, although the top is twisted to align NNE-SSW, and the top and W side of the stone have been damaged. (max. H 1.43m). Archaeological monitoring (03E1956) c. 50m to SW failed to recover any related material (Purcell 2007). (Moore 1996, 13, no. 102).
Updated by: Michael Moore
Revised date of upload: 25 March, 2014
References
Purcell, J. 2007 Eardownes Great. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 466, No. 1801, Dublin, Wordwell
Moore, M. 1996 Archaeological inventory of county Wexford. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.