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Standing stone in Ballymacan

Standing stone

What is recorded here

At the southwest tip of a two-hundred-metre ridge in Ballymacan, a small round stone leans eastward like a person listening for an answer. It stands one metre tall with a sixty-centimetre body, small enough to touch but old enough to outlast every hand that has touched it. The ridge may have marked a boundary, a meeting place or a warning, yet the stone still points east as if waiting for someone to return what was borrowed.
Situated at the SW end of a short NE-SW ridge (L c. 200m). This was describe in 1969 (SMR file) as a small round-sectioned stone (diam. c. 0.6m; H c. 1m) leaning slightly to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 August 2022

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