Kill Stone

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The kill stone is a menhir ( English standing stone ). It stands near Sky Road, at the hamlet of Kill ( Irish An Chill ), on an alluvial plain at the east end of Kingstown Bay, west of Clifden in County Galway in Ireland .

The granite stone is one of the 33 menhirs in Connemara and is about 1.6 meters high and strongly rounded at the top. The texture of the granite is easy to see.

Nearby are the D'Arcy Stones and the Letterdeen Menhir .

See also

literature

  • Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway . Vol. 1: West Galway (including Connemara and the Aran Islands) . Stationery Office, Dublin 1993, ISBN 0-7076-0322-6 .
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 39.2 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.