Site Type: Stone Row
Irish Grid Ref: L7741080830
Location: Link to Bing Maps
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| The sun-sets over a cairn on Aillemore to the South. |
Description:
This double stone row was originally identified as a wedge-tomb in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological Society (1966-71) and described as follows;
"Consists of two lines of large boulders, 10 ft. apart, running in a north-west to south-east direction. Three stones on the west side are 50, 35 and 48 ins. in length, 58, 54 and 58 ins. in height, and 35, 18 and 35 ins. in thickness, respectively.
The five stones on the north side are smaller, the fifth built into a field-wall at the south eastern end. They measure 28, 43, 47, 38 and 35 ins. in length, 40, 34, 44, 57 and 29 ins. in height, and 21, 17, 29, 25 and 15 ins. in thickness, respectively."
Two alternative names are given for the stones "The Giant's Jack-stones" or "Clocha Fionna".
The first record I came across of this alignment is in an article in Archaeology Ireland in Winter 1999 on JSTOR by Gerry Bracken. The townland name that is used in the article is Accony but it clearly is Askillaun. Unusually this "setting" of the sun occurs around 1.30pm in the afternoon as it sets behind Slievemore mountain to the south. The article also mentions that there is a cairn situated on Slievemore where the sun is seen to set.
Links to photographs;
Picture of Ardamore Stone Row by www.themodernantiquarian.com contributor Andy Ryan
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