What is recorded here

Boy Hill in Ballycollin holds a cairn and cist where people reused a capstone as a standing stone. That choice suggests the hill was not forgotten but remade, perhaps marking a boundary, a burial or a warning to travellers. The stones still stand because human hands kept returning them to sight.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN & CIST, with capstone reused as STANDING STONE: BOY HILL. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Neolithic cairn and cist, possibly dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, with a reused capstone as a standing stone. This site reflects early funerary and ritual practices in the region, showcasing the reuse of megalithic materials over time.

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