Standing stone in Cloghane Lower, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In a level pasture field, on a terrace on a S-facing slope overlooking Blackball Head to the SW. This standing stone (0.72m x 0.5m; H 0.95m) is roughly rectangular in plan and is orientated N-S. The upper half of the stone narrows gradually to the top. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO127-055

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