Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45081, -9.09059
- SMR number
- GA056-054002-
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
Some 35m SE of Cloghanover Castle (GA056-054001-). It comprises a squat limestone boulder (L 0.6m, Wth 0.35m, H 0.6m), its long axis running NW-SE. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187), this stone is known locally as 'Cloch an Uabhair'. It is reputed 'to have been cast hither from a distant hill by a witch called Cailleach an Uabhair who impressed the marks of her thumb and three fingers in it' (ibid.). Two other similar boulders are also visible in the vicinity of the castle, 1m to W and 40m to NNE respectively.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.