Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Garrafrauns, County Galway, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.