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Rock ArtSite Name: Turoe StoneCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Galway Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Loughrea Nearest Village: Bullaun
Discovery Map Number: D39
Latitude: 53.252667N Longitude: 8.56198W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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It was moved from the Rath (Iron Age farmstead) of Feerwore ( Fír Mhór: Big – or Great - Men) in the same townland, where excavations suggested that an open site dating to the last centuries before the Christian Era was later enclosed.
The stone is of granite, 90 cms high, and the top half is covered with a continuous abstract curvilinear design carved in relief in the Celtic style known as “La Tène”, with a kind of circumcision-line of Greek-key pattern beneath it. The flowing design could be interpreted as semen. It is amazing that such a wonderful object - resembling (and obviously as important as) the Navel Stone at Delphi, has survived in Ireland up to the 21st century, remaining outdoors, albeit somewhat spoiled by a concrete surround and cattle-grid.
It has a kind of “sister” in the egg-shaped Castlestrange Stone, county Roscommon.
Note: The Turoe stone has been removed for conservation, due to return in summer 2015, see the most recent comments on our page
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