Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pillar stone
Oileán Máisean, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oileán Máisean
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30055, -9.88642
- SMR number
- GA076-011008-
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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
Within the N half of a leacht (GA076-011007-) that lies c. 20m to the NNW of an early Christian church (GA076-011001-). This thin granite pillar stone (L 1m; base Wth 0.23m; max. T 0.09m) is roughly rectangular in plan and tapers from the bottom to the top (Wth 0.1m; max. T 0.12m). It is undecorated and leans to the E.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.