Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Knockauncarragh (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockauncarragh (Leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05419, -8.41543
- SMR number
- GA125-074----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
On the S end of a ridge in the Slieve Aughty mountains. Indicated and named 'Stone' in Roman script on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this standing stone consists of an irregular conglomerate slab of pink granite and white quartz (H 1.55m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.5m) aligned NE-SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Townunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.