What is recorded here

Mud and rain on both sides, a triangular shale slab stands on a slight rise in County Louth, pointing roughly northeast to southwest. It is not a grand monument, but a broken-edge marker, three metres tall and half a metre thick, still stiff enough to stop a person walking past. Maybe it marked a boundary, a burial, a road or a warning; maybe people only touched it because it was different from the ordinary ground.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on slight rise in undulating countryside. Slab of shale, triangular in plan (max. dims. H 3m, 1.5m by 0.6m in section), orientated roughly NE-SW.

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