<< Our Photo Pages >> Hurlstone - Holed Stone in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Louth
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: HurlstoneCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 3.604 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Louth Type: Holed Stone
Nearest Town: Ardee
Map Ref: N9426987509
Discovery Map Number: D14
Latitude: 53.828672N Longitude: 6.569061W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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bishop_pam: would like to visit We could not find this despite following all instructions and wading across a stream - we were near Hurlestone Manor but no sign of the Stone.
700 metres down a track leading SW off the R.24 on the SE side, this superb slab, 1.6metres high and 1.8 metres broad at the base, has a perfectly circular perforation roughly in the middle. It is 20 cms in diameter, splaying to about 25 cms. This part of Lough used to be rich in standing-stones, and “The Hurl Stone” is one of a chain of stones possibly forming some kind of boundary – though equally it might be the only remnant (a perforated door-slab) of a wedge-tomb.
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