Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballylin East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghanlegaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 53.20152, -8.70847
- SMR number
- GA104-034----
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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
On a NNW-SSE ridge, the base of which has been stripped of topsoil from NE-WSW. This standing stone (H 1.35m; base Wth 1.15m; max. base T 0.3m) is aligned NE-SW and is roughly rectangular in plan. It leans at an angle of c. 40 degrees to the NW. Packing stones are visible at the base of its E face and there is another one at the base of its W face. Some topsoil has been dumped within 20m of it. (McCaffrey 1952, 212, no. 41)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.