Long Stone, standing stone in County Kildare (KD032-012001-)

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Towards the N end on a low partially quarried away esker. A tall (H. 2.3m) thin tapering granite stone (base L 0.61m; Wth 0.46m; top L 0.46m; Wth 0.3m) has a later cross incised on its SW face. While the cross may be associated with burials (KD032-012002-) discovered immediately to the N in 1987, Meagher (1936, 192) records that, ‘… 100 years ago or more, Father Lawlor and Father Cummins lived in a garden at Kilgowan cross-roads …; and it was one of these men that cut the cross on the Long Stone’. (Walshe 1931, 134) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 15 October 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1973).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD032-012001

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