Standing stone in Mullagha, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated on top of a hill and on the N side of a NE-SW field bank. A stone with a D-shaped cross-section (dims of base 0.85m NW-SE; 0.6m NE-SW; H 2.6m) with a pointed top has the initials RM and the date 1723 inscribed on its flat NE face. It is located about the centre of enclosure (ME018-020001-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME018-020

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