Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Moat (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
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----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.