Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Ardfry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardfry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23899, -8.97411
- SMR number
- GA094-007----
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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
On the WSW shore of Ardfry Oyster Pond. This irregular limestone slab (H 1.5m: Wth 0.9m; T 0.4m) tapers towards the top and is aligned E-W. Its proximity to Ardfry House, which stands c. 250m to the SW, suggests that it is most likely landscape feature or folly associated with the house. It was probably erected in the late 18th or early 19th century (Gosling 1986, 23). (McCaffrey 1952, 119, no. 29a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 December 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Gosling, P. 1986 Rambles in ancient Maree. In M. Killilea (ed.), A portrait of Maree, 17-27.
Nearby in the register
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.