What is recorded here

Two hollows cut into the stone hint at lost cross arms, suggesting a boundary marker or shrine rather than a simple monument. The stone has been moved twice since 1979, first to Baroda stud and again later, pulling it from the ridge top where burials have appeared. It is no longer in the place that shaped it, yet the hollows still point north and south like a forgotten instruction.

Near the highest point of a gravel ridge. A tapering granite stone with a roughly rectangular cross-section (H. 1.9m; L 0.4m N-S; Wth 0.3m tapering to L 0.2m; Wth 0.14m at the top). There are two depressions (possibly mortices cut for cross arms) on opposing, originally N and S, faces. The stone was removed in 1979 and re-erected at Baroda stud in Greatconnell townland, but was moved again subsequently. Burials (KD023-071----) have been discovered in this general area since the late-1940’s. (Meagher 1979-80, 123) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 06 June 2012

Probably dates to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, given its form and context. The depressions may indicate ritual or symbolic use, though specific meaning or folklore is not recorded.

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