What is recorded here

Indicated is a leaning rectangular stone in County Cork, still standing on a south-facing pasture slope after centuries of rain and grass. Its long axis points northwest to southeast while its body tilts east, as if listening to something off the land rather than blocking the sky. People may have passed it without naming it, reading direction or warning in its shape. The stone does not need praise; it continues the old act of pointing.

In pasture on S-facing slope. Rectangular stone (H 1.7m; 0.4m x 0.25m), long axis NW-SE, leaning heavily to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Dated to the Bronze Age (c. 2500–500 BCE), the stone may have functioned as a boundary marker, ritual monument, or megalithic tomb portal. No specific folklore or detailed local tradition is recorded for this site.

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