What is recorded here

Crossursa holds a thin limestone slab, one point four metres tall and aligned northwest to southeast. It stands in low grassland where southern floods still come, suggesting water and stone shared the same ancient border. The rectangle cuts the earth like a knife rather than a mound, inviting people to wonder whether they marked a boundary, a death or a warning about the land itself.

In low-lying grassland, the area to S is liable to flooding. A thin limestone slab (H 1.4m), rectangular in plan, aligned NW-SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have functioned as a territorial marker or had ceremonial significance. Its alignment and positioning could relate to local landscape features or seasonal flooding patterns, though specific folklore or use remains unrecorded.

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