Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Streamstown Or Barratrough, County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.