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At the position indicated in the heading, a stone has been placed on edge on top of a prominent NE-SW hill ridge from which there are commanding views. The stone, aligned NE-SW, is 2.8m long and 0.45m thick. It slopes from a height of 0.95m at its SW end to 0.2m at the NE end. There is no visible trace of any structure here, nor was there in 1847, when the stone was described in an OS Hill Drawing Name Book (1847). Its suitability for use as a side orthostat in a megalithic tomb, particularly a wedge tomb given its orientation and decrease in height from SW to NE, deems it worthy of record, although its origin and function remain quite uncertain.
OS Hill Drawing Name Book, book 116 (1847), 10.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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