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Rathmaiden : Stone Row (Alignment)

CountyWaterford
Grid RefS 384 091
GPSS 38413 09135 (10m)
Longitude7° 26' 15.73" W
Latitude52° 13' 57.83" N
Nearest TownCarrick-On-Suir (13 Km)
OS Sheet75
UTM zone29U
UTM x606692.20694155
UTM y5788073.6552617
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 10th June 2007

The Ordnance Survey map has a single standing stone marked near to the road. This is wrong on two counts - it's actually a six-stone stone row and it's nowhere near the road.

Four of the six stones are still upright. The other two lie in line with the rows axis. They are a little hard to see when you approach, because they are on the far side of a field hedge. This was obviously constructed to respect the line of the row, but thankfully it wasn't built so that it incorporated the row. Oddly, one stone is not on the main axis, but is offset by 1.5m or so. The tallest stone is around 1.8m tall, but the others aren't much smaller.

The alignment is southeast-northwest and points towards Crohaun Mountain. It does not point to the highest point though, but to somewhere down its southern slope.

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