Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterfrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54584, -9.92368
- SMR number
- GA023-055----
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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
Located in Letterfrack National Park in an area of bogland on the SW slope of Diamond Hill and on the N bank of the Sruffaunnanoon river, close to its source; a small lake bed is visible to the W. There are clear views of the ocean further to the W and Bunowen Hill to the SW. This possible standing stone (H 1m; Wth 0.41m; T 0.3m), of local stone with quartz veins, is rectangular in plan. Moss and lichen are visible on it and its lower section is obscured by heather. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Date of upload: 12 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.