What is recorded here
A standing stone, 1.2m high × 0.7m wide × 0.6m thick, which inclines to the W; N-S. Its flat upper surface has a shallow depression. Beside this, to the S, is a quartz stone .58m high × c. 0.7m × 0.6m. Some field clearance stones are wedged in between the two. According to local tradition the standing stone was used…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG031-002
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- Maker not stated on source page, storage.googleapis.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- danny kearney, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.thesmith.org.uk
- Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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