Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Cloonederowen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonederowen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54693, -10.01058
- SMR number
- GA022-023----
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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 pastureland just off the crest of a low ridge. Aligned N-S and 2m apart. Both stones are of granite and subrectangular in plan. The N stone is broken in two (H c. 1m); S stone (H 1.4m). There is a standing stone (GA022-099----) further downslope to SE (Ó Nualláin 1988, 197).
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.