What is recorded here

Split along its long axis and leaning slightly southeast, the standing stone in Gortderrig still marks a forgotten boundary or bargain beneath the heather. It rises from cutaway bog on the lower slopes of the East Pap of Dana, caught inside old field walls that have lost their fields but not their shape. A person may have set it, touched it, or merely walked past it until rain and time wore the meaning thin.

In rough heather-covered hill pasture in cutaway bog, on the lower N-facing slopes of the East Pap of Dana and within a network of relict field walls (KE068-126001-). The stone (dims. 1.22m x 0.45m; H 1.2m) is roughly rectangular in plan, orientated NE-SW and leans slightly to the SE. It is split along its long axis. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Probably dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, given its location within a landscape of relict field systems and upland settlement patterns common in Atlantic Ireland. It may have had a ritual or territorial function, or be associated with early farming activity; no specific folklore is recorded for this site.

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