Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Lough Cutra Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.