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Ritual site - holy/saint's stone

Moat (Kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy/saint's stone, Moat, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moat (Kilconnell By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
St. Patricks Stone (Site of)
Coordinates
53.31005, -8.35879
SMR number
GA087-186----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

In gently undulating grassland. Described in 1937 as 'St. Patrick's Chair. Granite' (Topgr. Files, NMI) but marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as 'Site of', suggesting that nothing of it then remained. According to local tradition, the stone was called 'St Patrick's Bowl', was trough-like in appearance, and contained water. No visible surface trace survives; possibly a bullaun. St Patrick's Well (GA087-088----) lies 500m to NNW.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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