What is recorded here

A single broad slab hunches out of boggy pasture on the Iveragh Peninsula, marking a Bronze Age landscape where human hands shaped stone before written memory began. It stands twenty-one metres from a boulder burial, suggesting the pair once spoke to each other across distance rather than sitting together. The missing second stone recorded on early maps may have fallen, been taken, or never existed at all, leaving the first slab to keep its quiet watch alone.

Stands 21m to W of boulder burial (CO116-007001-); (H 1.1m; 1m x 0.6m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may be associated with the nearby boulder burial, suggesting a funerary or ritual context. Its specific meaning or use remains unrecorded, though such stones often held symbolic or ceremonial significance in prehistoric communities.

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