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Standing stone in Drombanny

Standing stone

What is recorded here

In Drombanny, County Limerick, a leaning conglomerate stone stands on a northwest-facing pasture slope beside a possible enclosure. It measures one metre high and forty-two to forty-five centimetres wide, tilting west like a person caught mid-stride. The stone may have marked a boundary, a meeting place or a warning about unseen life. Its tilt suggests movement rather than decay, as if it still leans into the wind instead of falling under it.
On the external bank in the W of a possible enclosure, on a NW-facing slope in rolling pasture. Conglomerate stone (H 1m; Wth. 0.42-0.45m) leaning to W.
Probably dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have marked a boundary or held ritual significance within a wider landscape of ceremonial or domestic activity. Its placement on an enclosure bank suggests a possible role in defining or reinforcing territorial or spiritual boundaries.

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