D'Arcy Stones
The D'Arcy Stones are two menhirs ( English Standing Stones ) on a small road south of Sky Road, near Clifden Castle, west of Clifden in County Galway in Ireland .
One of them stands about 5 m north of the little road - it was probably erected around 1818 by John D'Arcy (1785–1839), the founder of the town of Clifden, when he built Clifden Castle . The other stone stands (presumably in situ ) on a hill near a barn. It is one of the 33 menhirs in Connemara .
Nearby are the Kill Stone and the Letterdeen Menhir .
See also
literature
- Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway . Vol. 1: West Galway (including Connemara and the Aran Islands) . Stationery Office, Dublin 1993, ISBN 0-7076-0322-6 .
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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