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Standing stone in Glen Lower

Standing stone

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Glen Lower holds a flat stone, one and a half metres tall and a metre and three quarters wide, set in good land above a dip to the south. Its edges are worn smooth, as if hands had rubbed them during long conversations, or rain had simply forgotten to erase it. The stone does not point to a distant event. It points downward, toward the lower ground where people may have stood, watched, or buried what they could not carry.
A standing stone c. 1.5m high × 1.3m wide × 0.3m thick; N-S. Situated in an area of fairly good land, on level ground overlooking lower ground to the S. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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