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Pillar stone in Colbinstown

Pillar stone

What is recorded here

Colbinstown and Killeen Cormac both point to one small stone, not a hidden grand story. The pillar still stands in the burial ground, lichen-bright and fractured at the top. People may have gathered there to mark death, claim land or simply remember a name now lost.
In the S sector of ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----). An earthfast lichen-covered stone (H 1.1m) with a roughly rectangular base (0.6m NW-SE; 0.2m NE-SW) which tapers irregularly to a slightly jagged and fractured top (0.3m NW-SE; 0.15m NE-SW). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22 November 2013
Probably dates to the Bronze Age, given its association with a burial ground. Likely used as a funerary or territorial marker, though specific folklore or ritual use is not recorded.

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