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Embedded atop boundary fence on S side of road; partially obscured by briars. Rectangular flat-topped sandstone block (0.65m N-S; 0.7m E-W; min. H 0.3m). Recorded by Lee (1932, 24-5) as having 'originally stood on the west side of the bothairín about 50 yards north of Tobar a' Chaipín where Holy Mass was celebrated in Penal Days. There is a tradition locally that when the stone was removed bells used to be tolled at the old site every night. It is rather significant that the large wood immediately east of this is known as the Priest's Wood'. Roche (1988, 25-6) also noted that stone was moved though he gives the original location as in the 'Priest's Wood'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO034-059

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • E. H., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • VisionsofthePast, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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