Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Knocknahaw, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknahaw
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55285, -10.00999
- SMR number
- GA022-115----
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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 the shoreline of Knocknahaw townland, in an intertidal zone of Ballynakill Harbour. When first noted this possible stone row consisted of three granite boulders that were roughly evenly spaced and increased in height from W to E. However, while the morphology was typical of stone rows, the siting and orientation were atypical (information from M. Gibbons). Now only two boulders are clearly visible – the middle and outermost bolders. The innermost boulder is obscured by seaweed and boulders. It was not possible to measure the boulders as the tide was in.
The following image has been uploaded: GA022-115----_01.jpg View from S
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.