Standing stone in Cloghanower, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Some 35m SE of Cloghanover Castle (GA056-054001-). It comprises a squat limestone boulder (L 0.6m, Wth 0.35m, H 0.6m), its long axis running NW-SE. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187), this stone is known locally as 'Cloch an Uabhair'. It is reputed 'to have been cast hither from a distant hill by a witch called Cailleach an Uabhair who impressed the marks of her thumb and three fingers in it' (ibid.). Two other similar boulders are also visible in the vicinity of the castle, 1m to W and 40m to NNE respectively. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA056-054002

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