Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stepping stones
Derreighter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreighter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41431, -9.40801
- SMR number
- GA053-003----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a NE-facing bog-covered mountain slope. During the course of turf-cutting operations a row of spaced stones was noted c. 2.3m below the surface of the bog. The stones occurred at intervals running in a line roughly E-W. They consisted of flat slabs of mica-schist. There was at least 1.5m of bog below the turf-cutting level. Possibly stepping stones.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Stepping stonesunder 1 mi
- Mine - leadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
- Mine - lead1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.