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Skerry West : Standing Stone

CountyAntrim
Grid RefD 129 163
Longitude6° 14' 10.77" W
Latitude54° 58' 52.96" N
Nearest TownClogh (3.8 Km)
OS Sheet9
UTM zone29U
UTM x676846.761095
UTM y6096213.4300966
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 1st December 2002

This really is a lovely stone. It changes appearance as you walk around it as if its morphing into another form before your eyes. We also arrived at the perfect moment - early on a winter morning, with the hazy sun beaming in from behind it, adding a mystical atmosphere to the visit.

As we were standing at the roadside taking a picture of the stone in the haze, with its long shadow trailing across the field, the farmer drove past, stopped and told us to go into the field to have a proper look (which we would have done anyway, but it's nice to be invited).

This slender, 1.8m tall stone has a suspicious groove in the top, giving it quite a graphical phallic appearance, as does Scotchomerbane (County Antrim) just up the road.

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Directions

From Clogh Mills take the B94 south to Clogh and the turn left along the B64. After 3km you come to a cross roads and then a road to the right. The stone is in the field just past this second road.

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