Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Carrowmore (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25323, -8.51102
- SMR number
- GA098-067----
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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 grassland. This standing stone consists of a squat granite boulder (H 0.9m; max. Wth 1m; ), oval in plan and aligned N-S. It is used by cattle as a scratching post. It is similar in shape to the Turoe stone (GA097-152----) but is smaller than it and is undecorated. Another possible standing stone (GA098-067001-) lies c. 10m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.