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Anomalous stone group

Garrafrauns, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Anomalous stone group, Garrafrauns, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Garrafrauns
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Cloch Breac (Dolmen)
Coordinates
53.63209, -8.83019
SMR number
GA004-029----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a rise in grassland bounded by a large tract of bogland to E and S. Described by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1972, 27) as 'Six large superimposed stones resting in an inclined position and forming no recognizable arrangement'. There are traces of a possible cairn, particularly on N side, but 'the nature of the site is uncertain and it may, in fact, be entirely natural' (ibid.)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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