Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Tooloobauntemple, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooloobauntemple
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24264, -8.60603
- SMR number
- GA097-148002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pastureland c. 25m to the N of a church (GA097-148001-) and graveyard (GA097-148003-). This standing stone consists of a smooth granite pillar stone (H 1.1m; max. Wth 1m; T 0.4m). It is subrectangular in plan with rounded corners and is aligned N-S. (Cody 1989, 165).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.