Miscellaneous

Leighlinbridge
Standing Stone / Menhir

From inquiries that Canon Willcocks was good enough to get made for me amongst some of the oldest inhabitants of the district, it appears that the pillar-stone was always known as “the Clonegall stone.” Gall is an ancient term for a pillar-stone; and “Clonegall,” in the present instance, would no doubt signify “pillar-stone meadow.”

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