Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone sculpture - aniconic (present location)
Turoe, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turoe
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25241, -8.56121
- SMR number
- GA097-152----
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
Originally located in the vicinity of the 'Rath of Feewore' (GA097-150001-). Known as the Turoe Stone, this National Monument consists of a glacial erratic (H 1.2m) shaped into a flattened cylinder with a domed top. Its upper 0.8m is covered with a well-preserved quadripartite arrangement of three-plane curvilinear ornament of La Tène style. This is bounded below by a horizontal band, 0.2m deep, of incised step-pattern. See GA097-150006- for its original location. (Redington 1902, 118; Raftery 1944, 23-52; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 132; Harbison 1975, 102; Cody 1989, 166-70, no. 29)
The stone has been temporarily removed to the Office of Public Works depot in Athenry for conservation purposes.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 September 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 11/1933).
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 327.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.