Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Laughil (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughil (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.00066, -8.81870
- SMR number
- GA128-061----
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 NW-facing slope in an area of pastureland and outcropping rock. This standing stone is now recumbent. It consists of a large prostrate undressed subrectangular stone (L c. 1.9m) which tapers towards the S end It is partially covered by a small cairn of field-clearance boulders.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.