What is recorded here
On flat open pastureland, now part of Ballybrit Racecourse. Until its removal in the 1960s or early 1970s, it consisted of 'an upright stone with an adjacent prostrate stone' which tradition held to be a mass-rock (Topgr. Files, UCG). No visible surface traces survive. (Anon. 1918, 99)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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