Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Rooghaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooghaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.16881, -8.79104
- SMR number
- GA104-263----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 slight ridge in pastureland. When inspected in February 1983 this standing stone consisted of a badly eroded limestone slab (H 2m; Wth 0.66m; T 0.29m) that was rectangular in plan and aligned E-W. A number of solution holes pierced it. Small stones formed a revetment (Wth 0.2m) around its base. Not visible on current OSi aerial imagery, which indicates that field boundaries in the area have subsequently been cleared. (McCaffrey 1952, 250, no. 132)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.