Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ardkyle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkyle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56816, -10.02557
- SMR number
- GA009-035----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In very rough bogland at a break in slope on a S-facing slope. Tully Mountain is visible to the NE and Maumfin is to the SW. This standing stone consists of an irregular piece of white veined quartz (max. H 1.1m; max. Wth 1.1m) aligned NE-SW. The SW face, which is visible from the roadway to the SW, is roughly triangular in shape and varies in height from 1.1m at the SE end to 0.4m at the NW end. The NW side of the boulder is obscured with heather. Another standing stone (GA022-125----) lies c. 600m to the site.
The monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 5 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.