Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Crocknaraw, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crocknaraw
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53620, -10.02334
- SMR number
- GA022-028----
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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
Crowning a prominent hill. Revealed during recent turf-cutting and still partially buried in the bog. Aligned NE-SW and 2.7m apart. Both stones are of white quartz. The N stone is subrectangular in plan (H > 1m) and S stone, which is prostrate, is rectangular (H 1.65m). (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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.