What is recorded here
Laughil holds a fallen giant rather than a proud pillar. Its undressed stone lies across a northwest slope, tapering toward the south like a forgotten sentence cut short. Pasture and scattered rock have claimed it back, leaving only a low ridge for footsteps to brush past. What it stood guard over has stopped answering, but the shape still points somewhere.
On a NW-facing slope in an area of pastureland and outcropping rock. This standing stone is now recumbent. It consists of a large prostrate undressed subrectangular stone (L c. 1.9m) which tapers towards the S end It is partially covered by a small cairn of field-clearance boulders.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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