Standing stone in Carrowntassona, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Located just off the summit of the SW-facing slope of a broad hill. There is a local report of a standing stone that may have been removed in the late 1980s, but there is no clear evidence of its existence.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA024-100

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