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Standing stone in Faul

Standing stone
Standing stone in Faul
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Close to the seashore on S side of Clifden Bay. Squat grey quartzite stone, pyramidal in shape (H 1m). A midden (GA035-044----) lies close by to W on the shoreline. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA035-043

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Picture: Abbeyglen Castle Hotel
  • Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Newbert12, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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