Standing stone in Kellybrook, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Monument identified and described by Schot (2016) as following; 'A recumbent stone pillar, possibly a collapsed standing stone, lies on the SW slope of Uisneach, c.80m N of the Cat Stone (WM024-061----). It consists of a roughly rectangular limestone slab, with a NW/SE long axis, and measures 1.88m in length by 0.77m wide and c.0.45m in maximum thickness. The stone is located on the line of a former field boundary, which is marked on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map but was removed prior to the compilation of the 1914 map'. See attached photo provided by Dr. Roseanne Schot Compiled by: Dr. Roseanne Schot Date of upload: 07 May 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM024-192

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