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Located in undulating pasture and rock outcrop and c. 4m S of an E-W road. This is a single upright slab of conglomerate (dims 0.8m x 0.4m; H 2.5m) oriented NNE-SSW and with a crest on top reaching its highest point at N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE025-095

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Photo credits
  • Discover Ireland; photographer not stated, Discover Ireland
  • Fifiheavey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791; Ledwich, Edward, 1738-1823, continuator, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Real Group Photos / realboyle (Flickr account); individual photographer not stated, www.flickr.com
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Sawyer777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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