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  2. List of archaeological sites in County Tyrone - Wikipedia

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    Findermore, Cross-carved standing stone: Abbey Stone, grid ref: H5176 5124 Fintona , Church ruins, in Castletown townland, grid ref: H4447 6143 Freughlough , Standing stone, grid ref: H2620 8530

  3. Rudston Monolith - Wikipedia

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    There is one other smaller stone, of the same type, in the churchyard, which was once situated near the large stone. The Norman church was almost certainly intentionally built on a site already considered sacred, a practice common through the country – indeed the name of Rudston comes from the Old English "Rood-stane", meaning "cross-stone ...

  4. Menhir - Wikipedia

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    A menhir (/ ˈ m ɛ n h ɪər /; [1] from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long" [2]), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age.

  5. List of megalithic monuments in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    stone circle - -Bohonagh: Cork: stone circle - Brownshill Dolmen: Carlow-portal tomb: 5000–6000 years -Carnfree: Roscommon-cairns, standing stones - Carrigagulla: Cork-stone circles, stone rows - Carrowkeel Tombs: Sligo

  6. Rudston - Wikipedia

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    Rudston Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints. [16] Of 14th-century origin, it was restored in 1861 by George Fowler Jones. [17] It contains the gigantic organ, originally of four manuals, given by Sir Alexander McDonald of the Isles. Now a two-manual instrument, it stands at the west end of the church in the original ...

  7. List of archaeological sites in County Cork - Wikipedia

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    Location of boulder burial, burial ground at Kileen Coolcoulaghta Church contains 1847 famine victims, cairn, coastal promontory fort, fulachta fiadh, ringfort, standing stone, a standing stone pair. Coomkeen (915 acres) Cum Caoin, 'gentle valley'. Possible massrock, on the south side is Screathan na Muice (stoney slope of the pig).

  8. High place - Wikipedia

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    The bamah of Megiddo. From the Hebrew Bible and from existing remains a good idea may be formed of the appearance of such a place of worship. It was often on the hill above the town, as at Ramah (1 Samuel 9:12–14); there was a stele (), the seat of the deity, and a Asherah pole (named after the goddess Asherah), which marked the place as sacred and was itself an object of worship; there was ...

  9. List of scheduled monuments in Flintshire - Wikipedia

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    Stone circle Nannerch: SJ168679: Five stones form part of a circle. Oaktrees complete the ring. Earliest record is 1784 but it is suspected that it may be an 18th-century fake. Nearby standing stone is Bronze Age. Prehistoric: FL008 [3]