Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Knockawuddy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockawuddy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Liagan
- Coordinates
- 53.22274, -8.94480
- SMR number
- GA103-004----
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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
Close to the summit of a low ridge overlooking marshland to the SW. This standing stone (H 1.5m; base Wth 1.15-1.2m narrowing to 0.37-1m at top) consists of a granite slab, roughly rectangular in plan and leaning to the SW. Partly displaced, it is aligned NE-SW. (Gosling 1986, 17)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 December 2019
References
Gosling, P. 1986 Rambles in ancient Maree. In M. Killilea (ed.), A portrait of Maree, 17-27.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.