Row of stones from Goles
The stone row of Goles ( English Goles stone row - also called Golan stone row ) is located (next to a house) on the slopes of the Oughtvabeg Mountains, on the north side of the Glenelly Valley and the B47 between Plumbridge and Draperstown in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland .
They are not remnants of a megalithic complex , as antiquarians assumed in the early 20th century, when it was still in an overgrown field border. The somewhat odd, north-south oriented row of stones is about 16.0 m long and consists of eleven menhirs with heights of 0.65 to 1.6 m. Some of them have their broadsides at right angles to the direction of the row, which probably dates from the early Bronze Age .
Rows of stones are not common on the island of Ireland , particularly east of Ulster . The best known are Aughlish N, Broughderg North, Clagan, Davagh Lower and the "Goles stone row".
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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '48.2 " N , 6 ° 57' 34.2" W.