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Situated on a very slight, broad rise in a level landscape. A local stone with a triangular cross-section (dims. 1.3m x 0.4m; H 3.8m) is oriented N-S. Nearby a second stone is lying prone (L 3.35m; Wth 0.6-0.76m; min. T 0.3m). Archaeological testing (04E0390) c. 90-130m to the W in Grennan townland produced no archaeological material (Scully, 2007). Scully, O. (2007c) Greenan. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennet (ed.) Excavations 2004: summary account of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 425-6, No. 1677. Wordwell, Dublin.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA016-044

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