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Standing stone in Cartronbore

Standing stone

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Standing stone in Cartronbore is a recumbent limestone slab on a north-facing pasture slope in County Longford. It stood upright when measured in 1978, aligned northwest to southeast, but has since fallen onto the grass. Another stone lies three hundred metres to the northwest, suggesting the field once held more than one marker. The first may have marked a boundary, a burial or a route now forgotten, while the second waited patiently for someone to remember what the first had said.
On a N-facing slope in pasture. Not indicated on the 1837 or 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map but shown on the 1914 ed. A report in 1978 (SMR file) recorded that this limestone slab was upright and was aligned NW-SE. It is now recumbent (L 1.7m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.4m). Another standing stone (LF011-062----) lies c. 300m to the NW. (ITA Survey 1944; English 1971, 153) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 March 2012

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