Letterdeen menhir
The Menhir of Letterdeen ( English Letterdeen Standing Stone ) stands near the Sky Road, on the alluvial plain at the east end of Streamstown Bay, in the townland of Letterdeen ( Irish Leitir Dín ) northwest 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 Kill Stone .
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 '22 " N , 10 ° 2' 26.2" W.