What is recorded here

Cloghacorra stands two metres high on the northern slope of the Malin More valley, twenty-seven metres from a portal tomb. One sharp stone remains where maps once drew two, beside a long modern cairn that local memory rejects as ancient. The lost second stone may have fallen, been carried away, or simply stopped mattering to the people who stopped walking that slope. What survives is a thin vertical mark in poor pasture, close enough to the tomb to suggest continuity but distant enough to resist explanation.

Marked 'Cloghacorra' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps, two stones (DG089-006002-; DG089-006003-) are shown. The site presently consists of one stone (DG089-006002-) 2.05m high, .76m N-S and 0.4m thick. 3m to the W is a cairn 15m NNE-SSW × 3m and 0.6m to .9m in height. The cairn is believed locally to be modern. The site is located in sloping poor 'pasture on the N side of Malin More valley 27.5m SSW of a portal tomb (dg089-006001-). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the Glenmalin standing stone may have functioned as a territorial marker, ceremonial focus, or astronomical alignment point. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with legendary figures or supernatural events, though specific traditions for this site are not recorded.

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