What is recorded here

Long Stone in Broadleas Commons, County Kildare, is a four-metre granite pillar knocked flat around 1836, leaving one-sixth of its length hanging in air like a broken lever. Someone later cut two small crosses into its exposed side, answering the wound rather than the old purpose. The granite did not grow locally, so the stone arrived as a guest and still leans westward, remembering the tilt of its own fall.

Just off the crest of a low hill in mixed pasture and tillage. A tall tapering, granite pillar, (H. c. 4.10m) with a rounded rectangular cross section (base L 1.25; Wth 0.8m) inclines slightly towards the W. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 June 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 94/1940).

Dated to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, the Long Stone at Cradockstown West is likely a ceremonial or funerary monument, possibly aligned with solar or ritual practices common in megalithic traditions. No specific folklore is recorded, but its positioning on a hill crest suggests a symbolic or territorial function.

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