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'Standing Stones Hill' : Stone Pair

TownlandTornagrough
CountyAntrim
Grid RefJ 252 743
GPSJ 25228 74297 (5m)
Longitude6° 3' 43.16" W
Latitude54° 36' 4.68" N
Nearest TownBelfast (9.1 Km)
OS Sheet15
UTM zone29U
UTM x689771.97865642
UTM y6054393.6031493
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 30th September 2007

What a shame! When someone has named a hill after the standing stones on its low summit, you would think that more care would be taken of them. Both of the stones here have fallen and now liw within a ruined compound.

One of the stones is in a field ditch wrapped in rusty chainlink fencing. The other is only slightly more fortunate, as this appears to have been left where it fell. When standing the latter would probably have been the taller of the two (assuming they were set into the ground by roughly the same amount.) It would have stood a little over 1.5m tall.

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