What is recorded here

Barrysbrook once held a standing stone on a rising NE-facing slope, but the stone has vanished from sight and local memory places it buried beneath the pasture where it stood. A second stone still marks the land a hundred metres south-west, while test trenches opened near the first site found only clean sand, gravel and bedrock. The field may still cover its own witness, waiting beneath grass and rain for someone patient enough to listen.

Stone has disappeared and local informant said it was buried in the ground nearby the original site. Not visible at ground level. According to local information the stone was buried in the field it was located in. Located in well drained pasture on NE facing slope of rising ground with nearby standing stone to SW (OF010-014----). Not marked on first two editions of OS 6-inch maps. Test excavation was carried out by Dominic Delany under licence no. 00E0866 at the site of a proposed dwelling on 11 November, in response to a request for further information from Offaly County Council. The site lies c. 1km south-east of the archaeological complex at Croghan Hill and is within the area of constraint around the possible site of a standing stone. The stone stood c. 50m east of the proposed dwelling and, according to local information, now lies buried in the field in which it formerly stood. A second standing stone (SMR 10:14) lies c. 100m south-west of the site. Four test-trenches were excavated on the footprint of the proposed development. The topsoil, 0.7m thick, directly overlay bedrock and natural sand and gravel deposits. No archaeological material was discovered. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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