What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the last road, a rectangular stone rises three metres from pasture on Carrignagown Hill, its edges worn smooth by centuries of rain and passing hands. Two shallow grooves cut opposite faces, one longer than the other, as if someone marked a measure or a boundary before writing existed. A stone circle and burial mound wait two hundred metres northeast, while a cooking pit sits sixty metres west, suggesting this was never an isolated marker but a lived landscape where people gathered, cooked, remembered the dead, and oriented themselves beneath an open sky. The grooves may have recorded tide, season, or simply the reach of an arm; whatever they measured, they still invite touch.

In level pasture, on the lower S-facing slopes of Carrignagown Hill. This standing stone (1.1m x 1m; H 3.8m) is rectangular in plan and section and tapers towards the top. It is orientated NNE-SSW. It has a shallow groove (L 0.55m; Wth 0.04m; D 0.05m) on its ESE face and a similar groove (L 0.23m) on its WNW face. Some packing-stones are visible at the base of the stone. A multiple-stone circle (KE094-021001-) and a boulder burial (KE094-021002-) are c. 200m to the NE and there is a fulacht fia (KE094-022001-) c. 60m to the W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ceremonial or territorial significance. Its orientation and groove could relate to ritual use or astronomical alignment, though specific folklore or function remains unrecorded.

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