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CountyWaterford
Grid RefS 522 084
Longitude7° 14' 9.66" W
Latitude52° 13' 29.97" N
Nearest TownTramore (8.6 Km)
OS Sheets75, 76
UTM zone29U
UTM x620485.70051217
UTM y5787529.0592045
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 31st March 2002

This stone offers little It is a large slab like thing sitting in the middle of a field and appears to grow from a tuft of brambles.

I am not sure that this was originally just a standing stone because it is of a size and shape normally found as part of a tomb. It is maybe 1.7m tall and 90cm wide.

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Sunday, 16th July 2006

I thought I'd stop and take a quick look over the hedge to see if this stone was any more accessible. The route into the field is via the nearby farmyard and I didn't have enough time to ask, so I made do with just looking from the road.

This time around the stone was free of the clump of brambles and nettles. I'd expected to see it completely covered.

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Directions

From Waterford take the N25 west and then the R681 south. After about 400m you will come to a left hand bend in the road. The stone is just before this on the left.

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9.2 Km (W) there is a Standing Stone at Ballyhussa.
6 Km (SSW) there is a Portal Tomb at Ballynageeragh.
5 Km (SSW) there is a Stone Pair at Croagh.
7.6 Km (SW) there is a Portal Tomb at Savagetown.
6 Km (ESE) there is a Wedge Tomb at Munmahoge.

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