Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ardvarna, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardvarna
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42641, -9.31549
- SMR number
- GA054-001----
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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 an E-facing slope in pastureland. This standing stone (H 1.93m) consists of an irregular limestone slab that is leaning slightly southwards. The base (Wth 0.35m) is subrectangular in plan and the slab tapers towards the top (Wth 0.23m) where it sub-triangular in plan.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.