Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Kilquain (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquain (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 53.20043, -8.72607
- SMR number
- GA104-155----
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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 rise in grassland. This standing stone consists of a limestone slab (H 1.3m; base Wth 0.53m; Wth at top 0.32m) that is rectangular in plan and aligned N-S. It is currently used as a support for an electric fence. (McCaffrey 1952, 233, no. 72)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.