Standing stone in Cannaboe, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Located on a N-facing slope within Ballinamore, it was on the street outside McAllister's Hotel until it was moved to a back-garden. It is marked only on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and described as a stone '5 feet 8 inches high' (H c. 1.8m) and with a girth or circumference of '10 feet 6 inches' (c. 3.2m ) (OSFM).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE025-117

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Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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Maker not stated on source page, www.echolive.ie
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Bryan Keane / Inpho, www.irishexaminer.com

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