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Stone circle

Streamstown Or Barratrough, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle, Streamstown Or Barratrough, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Streamstown Or Barratrough
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cloghalegaun
Latest-edition OS map
Cloghalegaun
Coordinates
53.51451, -10.03939
SMR number
GA022-067----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the summit of a hill overlooking the inner reaches of Streamstown Bay to SW. Two stones are aligned NE-SW and 1.75m apart. Both stones are of schist. The N stone is triangular in plan (H 1.1m) and S stone is rectangular (H 2.1m). A thin outlying monolith, irregular in plan (H 0.8m), lies 9m due SE of N stone. Lying beside it is another stone, also of schist (0.7m by 0.4m). Gibbons and Higgins (1988c) interpret this as a possible stone circle; it also has affinities with four-poster monuments. (Ormsby 1914; Kinahan 1872, 12; 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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