What is recorded here

Standing stone in Carns is a standing stone in Carns, County Roscommon, Ireland. It stands on a southeast-facing slope at the east end of the Carnfree ridge within an ecclesiastical enclosure. The stone measures one point zero five metres high with a zero point four metre square base and aligns northwest to southeast just outside the southeast angle of the church.

On a SE-facing slope at the E end of the Carnfree ridge within the ecclesiastical enclosure (RO028-075004-) A standing stone (dims of base 0.4m x 0.4m; H 1.05m) aligned NW-SE is just outside the SE angle of the church (RO028-075005-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13th September, 2010.

Likely dating to the early medieval period, this standing stone may have had a ceremonial or territorial function, possibly linked to the nearby ecclesiastical site. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with saintly legends or ancient boundary markers.

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