Daithi's Stone, Rathcroghan

Daithí's Stone stands on a mound in the Glenballythomas townland, part of the wider Rathcroghan complex near Tulsk, Co. Roscommon. The monument is an embanked earthen mound with a red sandstone pillar rising from its top. Excavation records classify the site as a ring barrow of the Bronze Age, and investigators found that its builders had shaped the mound from a natural gravel ridge rather than...