Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Ballynew (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynew (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55834, -10.06862
- SMR number
- GA022-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a small hillock immediately to W of Ballynakill Lough. Aligned NW-SE and 3m apart. Both stones are of white quartz. The N stone is now prostrate (0.9m by 0.7m by 0.4m); S stone is pyramidal in 'shape (H 0.9m). Part of a complex of monuments centred on Lough Sheeauns to W (see GA022-006----). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 197, where misplaced in Sheeauns td.)
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.