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Cursing stone in High Island

Cursing stone
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This rounded granite boulder (0.4m N-S; 0.34m E-W; H 0.34m), a possible cursing stone, is to the S of the church (GA021-026014-) on High lsland and is located between the church enclosure (GA021-026021-) and the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA021-026022-). A cross-slab (GA021-026025-) lies c. 4m to the NW. Similar boulders were noted on Cruach na Cara/St MacDara’s Island (see GA021-020026-) and Mason Island (see GA076-011005-). (Bigger 1896, 109; Scally 2014, 43, 143, 158-9) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 January 2015

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