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Standing stone

Laughil (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Laughil, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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