Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Ballydawley, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydawley
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghagadaide
- Coordinates
- 54.20714, -8.45891
- SMR number
- SL020-170----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a coniferous forest, on flat ground. A row of three stones, two of which are upright, aligned NNE-SSW. The NNE stone (c. 0.75m x 0.6m) is prostrate but when upright would have been at least 1.6m high. The centre stone is the tallest (H 1.7m; 0.8m x 0.55m) and its long axis is transverse to the alignment of the row. The SSW stone (H 0.6m; 0.6m x 0.6m) is also upright. The stones are known locally as 'Clogh a gadaide or the Thief's stone' (O'Rorke [1889], vol. 2, 239). (Kilgannon 1926, 241-2)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.