Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Clifden Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clifden Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49057, -10.04962
- SMR number
- GA035-027----
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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 prominent, but natural, mound in the former demesne of Clifden Castle. Squat granite boulder (H 0.9m), oblong in plan and aligned N-S. Possibly a genuine antiquity but the four other 'standing stones' (see GA035-028-----GA035-031----), ranged along both sides of the venue leading to the mansion, are probably 19th-C ornamental features. It is incorrectly located on the RMP map (1997).
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).
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload 4 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.