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Clough Patrick

Ritual site, holy/saint's stone

What is recorded here

Marked 'Clogh Patrick' on the 1835 and the 1938-9 ed. of the 'OS 6-inch' maps. A large boulder with natural grooves in it (SMR file, 1967).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH008-108

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  • HoganStand / DG Press; individual photographer not named, hoganstand.com
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • DarranRaff, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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