Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
úraid, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- úraid
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44477, -9.61877
- SMR number
- GA052-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Crowning a prominent glacial ridge at the foot of Cnoc Úraid. Incorporated into a modern L-shaped sheepfold. Aligned N-S and c. 1.15m apart. Both stones are subrectangular in plan. The N stone is prostrate (1.14m by 0.65m by 0.55m); S stone (H 1.15m). A house lies 175m to SW (GA052-006----). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 197, who interprets it as 'two uprights and a prostrate stone')
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bridge1 mi
- Stone row2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.