Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Sheeauns, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheeauns
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55499, -10.07518
- SMR number
- GA022-060----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low ridge overlooking Lough Sheeauns to N. Comprises three rounded granite stones, aligned NNW-SSE, and measuring c. 4.50m overall. The N stone (L 1.2m) has fallen, and centre stone (H 0.5m) is considerably smaller than S stone (H 1m). An outlying monolith of ?schist, with quartz inclusions, lies c. 7.5m NNW of the fallen N stone. Part of a complex of monuments centred on Lough Sheeauns (GA022-006----). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 195; Gibbons and Higgins 1988b)
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.