Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cursing stone
Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Cara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30463, -9.91722
- SMR number
- GA076-020026-
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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
Associated with the leacht (GA076-020010-) that is located c. 20m to the NE of the church (GA076-020001-) on Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island. Bigger (1896, 109) refers to ‘several spherical praying or "cursing” stones on the leacht. Two are now visible at NNW, one is of granite and the other is limestone. The granite boulder (0.19m N-S; 0.15m E-W; T 0.12m) is roughly oval in shape, while the limestone one (0.17m N-S; 0.16m E-W; T 0.65m) is roughly circular and very flat. Another small spherical granite boulder, visible to the W of the cross-slab (GA076-020009-) that was formerly located on the leacht but is now c. standing c. 3m to its SSE, may also be another one of these stones.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 June 2018
References
Bigger, F.J. 1896 Cruach Mac Dara, off the coast of Connamara: with a notice of its church, crosses, and antiquities. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 101-12.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.