What is recorded here

Standing stone in Jamestown is a conifer-plantation marker on a steep north-facing slope in County Limerick, Ireland, kept separate from the nearby buried mound and hidden from ordinary cartography. Local memory calls it the Giant’s rock, describing a fleeing giant, a throwing stone and finger marks still visible on its surface. That much is story rather than measurement, but the claim gives the place its shape: a hostile landscape where size, distance and violence become visible in rock.

In a conifer plantation, on steep N-facing slope. Possible burial mound (LI055-026----) lies 235m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. According to local information this stone known locally as the ‘Giant’s rock’ which is associated with the following story ‘of two giants who fought on plain to NE of site, one fled and the other hurled this stone after him. The giants fingers are visible on the stone’ Inaccessible due to overgrowth. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 17 November 2021

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