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
- 53.53796, -10.01473
- SMR number
- GA022-030003-
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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
On a slight rise in cutaway bog, c. 40m to the SE of an enclosure (GA022-030002-). Aligned NW-SE and 1.8m apart. Both stones are of white quartz. The N stone is oval in plan (H 0.8m) and S stone is prostrate (1.3m by 0.75m). Another set stone lies 1.55m to SE but its relationship to the pair is unclear. It is rectangular in plan (H 0.4m). Both stones are clearly visible on current aerial imagery (OSi Digitalglobe 2011-2013; Geohive MapGenie Imagery 2013-2018). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 195)
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).
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 27 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.