Standing stone in Knockysheehan, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views SSW to Torc Mountain. The stone (dims. 0.85m x 0.4m; H 1.05m) is roughly rectangular in plan, leans slightly to the SW and is orientated NNE-SSW. A packing-stone is evident at the ENE side.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE067-111

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