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Standing stone in Drumconny

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Situated on a hillock (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S; H c. 4-6m) on the floor of a N-S valley, with a small canalised S-N stream c. 80m to the W. A stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims of base 1.2m x 0.2m) and a blunt pointed top (H 1.2m) is oriented NNE-SSW. About 10m S are five stones lying prone which are known locally as 'Finn McCool's Fingers'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE033-051

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Cloone GAA club website; individual photographer not stated, cloonegaa.net
  • Terry Williams / Leitrim Observer, www.leitrimobserver.ie
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 2.5
  • Reading Tom, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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