Standing stone in Blackmoor, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a gentle NW-facing ridge slope. An irregular, top heavy, granite pillar (H 1.9m; L 2.3m; Wth 0.76m; max. T 0.85m) inclining sharply to the W. The stone has a N-S long axis.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI015-087

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putnik, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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