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Athdown : Standing Stone

CountyWicklow
Grid RefO 061 141
Longitude6° 24' 47.95" W
Latitude53° 10' 0.59" N
Nearest TownBlessington (8.2 Km)
OS Sheet56
UTM zone29U
UTM x672906.65186243
UTM y5893954.1489252
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 21st December 2003

Another site that I only learned about through trawling through old records. This standing stone stands on the banks of the River Liffey and is pretty hard to reach - the best route would probably be via the road to te nearby sandpits.

It took a lot of binocular work to actually spot it from the road above, because it stands in a bank of stones, apparently raised as defenses against the river.

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