Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Derryinver, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryinver
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58343, -9.98800
- SMR number
- GA010-004----
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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
Some 35m SW of a stone row (GA010-008----). Three irregular boulders (Hs 0.35m, 0.65m, 0.6m), embedded in the peat and all listing markedly, appear to form an arc or chamber (N-S 2.25m). Killanin (1954, 98-9), followed by Gibbons and Higgins (1988a, 58), has suggested that this is the remains of a megalithic tomb but the remains are insufficient to permit classification.
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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.