Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Clooshgereen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooshgereen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.41079, -9.34133
- SMR number
- GA054-022----
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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
This massive glacial erratic (H 2.7-4.4m; max. Wth 7.1m), named 'St. Patrick's Stone' on the 1898-9 resurvey of the OS 6-inch map, is located close to the NW summit of Corkernarusheeny Hill, in an area of rough terrain scattered with numerous boulders. A dark band running diagonally across its S face is believed to mark line of the chain used by St Patrick to tow the stone from Maam to its present location.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mine - leadunder 1 mi
- Mine - leadunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.