What is recorded here
Standing stone in Commons is a single upright conglomerate slab in County Leitrim, Ireland. It rises 2.5m beside an east-west road in undulating pasture, its crest reaching highest at the north end. The stone may have marked a boundary, a meeting place or a remembered event, yet no human name remains attached to it.
Located in undulating pasture and rock outcrop and c. 4m S of an E-W road. This is a single upright slab of conglomerate (dims 0.8m x 0.4m; H 2.5m) oriented NNE-SSW and with a crest on top reaching its highest point at N.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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