Standing stone in Carrowmore, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In level pasture. A roughly triangular upright stone (H 2.1m) of sandstone that is approximately rectangular in plan (Wth 1.85m; T 1.2m), with its long axis aligned E-W. A crevice, near the top of the stone on its E side, has the stump of iron peg embedded in it.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI037-108

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