What is recorded here

Standing stone in Castledargan is a standing stone in Castledargan, County Sligo, Ireland. Two stones lie prostrate in water-filled hollows on a hilltop pasture, the larger measuring one by 1.3 by 0.5 metres in a ten-metre-wide depression and the smaller 0.8 by 0.4 by 0.2 metres immediately to the east in a similar hollow.

In pasture, on top of a hill. A prostrate stone (1m x 1.3m x 0.5m) in the centre of a water-filled hollow (diam c. 10m). Immediately to E, in another similar hollow, lies a second stone (0.8m x 0.4m x 0.2m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Probably dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the stone may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to water features commonly associated with prehistoric ceremonial sites. Local folklore sometimes connects such stones with protective or healing properties.

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