Liagan, standing stone in County Galway

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What is recorded here

Close to the summit of a low ridge overlooking marshland to the SW. This standing stone (H 1.5m; base Wth 1.15-1.2m narrowing to 0.37-1m at top) consists of a granite slab, roughly rectangular in plan and leaning to the SW. Partly displaced, it is aligned NE-SW. (Gosling 1986, 17) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 December 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA103-004

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