Standing stone in Longstones, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Located on a N-S ridge of rock outcrop. A conglomerate slab (L 3.6m; Wth 0.6-1.15m; T 0.15m plus) which was upright within living memory and has a feature like a tenon at its base now lies prone and broken in two at the entrance to a farmyard.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE025-069

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