Standing stone in Castledargan, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on top of a hill. A prostrate stone (1m x 1.3m x 0.5m) in the centre of a water-filled hollow (diam c. 10m). Immediately to E, in another similar hollow, lies a second stone (0.8m x 0.4m x 0.2m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL021-042

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