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Stone row

Derryinver, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone row, Derryinver, 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
Derryinver
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.58380, -9.98726
SMR number
GA010-003----

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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 the level summit of The Tulach, a prominent ridge between Tully Mountain and Tully Lough. Known as Finn Mc Cool's Fingers, it comprises six stones, aligned N-S, and measuring 16m overall. The three northern stones are rounded granite boulders, decreasing in height from N to S (1.8m, 1.2m, 0.7m). The southern stones, which also decrease in height from N to S (1.6m, 0.7m, 0.5m), are, in contrast, rectangular slabs of schist. A possible seventh stone lies c. 0.6m further to N. The row is part of a complex of monuments on the hill which includes a pre-bog enclosure c. 100m to NE (GA010-005----), an unclassified stone structure c. 35m to SW (GA010-004----), and a series of pre-bog field walls (GA010-006----). (Killanin 1954, 98-9; Ó Nualláin 1988, 195; Gibbons and Higgins 1988a)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

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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