Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballynacourty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.21734, -8.93641
- SMR number
- GA103-027----
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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
In undulating pastureland. This standing stone consists of a limestone slab (H 2.3m; Wth 1.4m), rectangular in plan and aligned NW-SE. The base of the stone is 0.58m thick but on the SW face, at a height of 0.6m from ground level, it narrows to 0.35m where a natural ledge formation occurs. (McCaffrey 1952, 180, no. 8)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 December 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.