| Kilmogue - Standing Stone |
You can't look down on it properly, but this is taken from slightly above.
Photo Taken: Sunday, 6th April 2003
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_The most remarkable cromlech is at Kilmogue, in the barony of Knocktopher; the upper stone is 45 feet in circumference, and is elevated six feet above the ground at its lower end, and 15 at its upper: the country people call it Lachan Schal, or "the Great Altar."
from
A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF IRELAND by Samuel Lewis (1837)
A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
