Standing stone in Oughtagh, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Located 4.5m NE of a ringfort (GA007-109----) is a rectangular limestone standing stone (H 1.54m) tapering slightly towards the top. Its long axis runs NE-SW. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA007-113

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