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Stone sculpture - aniconic (present location)

Turoe, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone sculpture - aniconic (present location), Turoe, 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
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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

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

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

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