{"id":1960,"date":"2014-11-22T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:26:41","slug":"the-longest-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/the-longest-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LONGEST STONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><em>KILDARE OBSERVER<\/em> 27 APRIL 1935<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The longest stone ever is stated to be situated in the grounds of the St. Wolstan\u2019s Castle, a short distance from Celbridge.\u00a0 The stone which is standing up beside the river is stated to have been taken out of the Liffey at the spot where it now stands, by the predecessors of the late Colonel Cane.\u00a0 It is about 20 ft. long, and stands upright in its present position, enclosed by steel bands, and over-looks the most beautiful scenery for which the district is noted.\u00a0 The following old saying it is stated had its origin at this place: \u201cThe Tallest stone, the Longest Bone and the Deepest Water ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Re-typed by Mary Mahon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILDARE OBSERVER 27 APRIL 1935 The longest stone ever is stated to be situated in the grounds of the St. Wolstan\u2019s Castle, a short distance from Celbridge.\u00a0 The stone which is standing up beside the river is stated to have been taken out of the Liffey at the spot where it now stands, by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-history"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8120,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/8120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}