Standing stone in Boherlea, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. A stone, triangular in plan and roughly orientated NW-SE (H c. 0.8m) is c. 40m N of rath (ME002-040----).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME002-040001

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