Standing stone in Killountain, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In flat tillage c.100m S of Bandon river. Discovered 1980 during land reclaimation; only upper 0.5m of stone then visible. Stone subsequently removed from ground (H 1.9m; 0.9m x 0.5m); adjacent pit burial(CO110-006---) on S side (Shee-Twohig and Doody 1989, 5255). Stone re-erected in 1983, c. 300m to NE on river bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO110-005

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