What is recorded here

Caol An Phréacháin Thoir once held two stones, but the second vanished between survey editions, leaving behind a solitary broad slab that still leans slightly within rough pasture. The remaining gallaun stands 1.54 metres high beside the Kealafreaghane river, squat and deliberate rather than tall or showy. Its lost partner may have marked a boundary, a memory or a route through the peninsula, yet that meaning has gone quiet. What survives is a place where human presence became uncertain, and uncertainty itself became the monument.

In pasture on N side of Caha River. Two stones shown on both editions OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace. 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

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