Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Keernaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keernaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43969, -9.07327
- SMR number
- GA056-147----
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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
Situated on top of a low rise in undulating pastureland. This large tapering slightly rounded limestone slab (H 1.85m; base Wth c. 1.35m; Wth at top 0.85m; T 0.5m) is aligned N-S. A number of small packing stones are visible around its base, particularly on its W side.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock based on information supplied by Dr G. Gowling
Date of upload: 6 April 2018
The following images have been uploaded:
GA056-147----_01 View from S
GA056-147----_02 View from E
GA056-147----_05 View from W
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.