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Standing stone

Lough Cutra Demesne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Lough Cutra Demesne, 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
Lough Cutra Demesne
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03743, -8.79807
SMR number
GA129-038----

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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 fairly steep S-facing slope, near the base of a narrow pasture ridge. This standing stone, comprising a piece of karst limestone pavement (L 1.5m; Wth 0.6m at NNE end, narrowing to 0.45m at SSW end) that has been set on edge, is orientated NNE-SSW. It is roughly rectangular in plan but L-shaped in profile and is 1.45m in maximum height at its NNE end. At its lower SSW end it is only 0.5m high. A number of solution holes are evident on the stone. One small boulder at the base of the stone on its E side may be a packing stone. Loose stones on its W side may be the result of field clearance. Lichen covers all faces of the stone and the NNE is smooth as a result of cattle rubbing against it.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 24 October 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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