What is recorded here

Cloghanlegaun is a leaning standing stone on a stripped ridge in County Galway, tilted forty degrees northward as if listening to something buried beneath the missing soil. Its rectangular body rises one and a half metres above the earth, flanked by small packing stones that suggest human hands once steadied it against the wind. The ridge has been scarred from both sides, yet the stone remains upright enough to mark a direction, a boundary, or a memory no longer spoken.

On a NNW-SSE ridge, the base of which has been stripped of topsoil from NE-WSW. This standing stone (H 1.35m; base Wth 1.15m; max. base T 0.3m) is aligned NE-SW and is roughly rectangular in plan. It leans at an angle of c. 40 degrees to the NW. Packing stones are visible at the base of its E face and there is another one at the base of its W face. Some topsoil has been dumped within 20m of it. (McCaffrey 1952, 212, no. 41) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 December 2019

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