Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Standing Stone
Gallany, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Standing Stone
- Date of construction
- Pre 1600
- Address
- Standing Stone, Altimure Road, Gallany, Co Londonderry
- Townland
- Gallany
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.89146, -6.99613
- Date of survey
- 26 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/05/041
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A substantial standing stone in an isolated position in a grazing field. About 1200mm high and almost the same width and 400 thick. No evidence of shaping.
Historical information
The townland name, Gallany, means a standing stone – in Irish Gallan. There are other derivations including rock. The O.S. Memoirs states : There are several remarkable projecting rocks in this townland, of which two of the largest are called “the queen of the fairies rocks”.
SMR No. LDY 30.16
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 62-4 Londonderry – 2500.
2. O.S. Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Co Londonderry X, 1833-34, 1838
Ed by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams Q.U.B. p. 104
Secondary Sources
1. Banagher History Group, Historic Monuments and Sites of Banagher p. 25
2. Munn, Notes on Place Names of the Parishes and Townlands of the County of Londonderry p. 75
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An isolated standing stone in a grazing field making sculptural impact as well as having local historical interest.
Nearby in the register
- Poston’s MillMillunder 1 mi
- Poston’s MillMillunder 1 mi
- Fincarn BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Standing Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.