Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughrea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19841, -8.57147
- SMR number
- GA105-234----
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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
Found on the side of an old ruined out-building, this neat rectangular limestone block (L 0.44m; Wth 0.23m) with slightly battered sides and a slightly dished surface is decorated with relief carvings on each side face. The carvings include a dragon, a pair of animals confronting each other, a single-horned animal with a chain and a pair of trefoil terminals connected by a chain. The stone was not in situ but had been in the yard for as long as anyone could remember and locally it was believed to be from the old castle (GA105-150006-). It appears to have been part of a larger structure and of 16th-century date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock 2 June 2017
Date of upload: 2 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - summer houseunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Carmelite friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.