Kings Grave, standing stone in County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Located at the outer edge of a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Two stone uprights, roughly aligned N-S, are placed 0.35m apart. The N stone (dims 0.4m x 0.35m; H 1.5m) is oriented NE-SW and the S stone (dims 0.6m x 0.45m; H 1.35m) is oriented NNE-SSW. It was reputed to be the burial place of a king who died in combat with another at the hill called Mullach an Dá Rí – the hill of the two kings as recorded by John O’Donovan in the 1830s (Herity 2012, 398; Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 195).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE030-030

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Willie Donnellan / Leitrim Observer, www.leitrimobserver.ie
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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