Standing stone in Culleens, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

Situated on top of a N-S ridge. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Large, approximately circular boulder (Wth c. 1.5m; H 1.85m) tapering to a point at top. Probably an erratic rather than a genuine antiquity.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL017-069

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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