What is recorded here

Killakee’s standing stone is a three-metre granite boulder that once rose to a sharp point beside a buried enclosure, but it now lies prostrate across a modern trackway. The forest has swallowed the enclosure and the road has broken the stone’s upright life, yet the boulder still blocks the path to the crest like a forgotten guard. People may have climbed past it for centuries before wheels and boots turned its witness into an obstacle.

Situated in a forest clearing W of the site of a large enclosure (DU025-021002-) planted with trees. It was described as an irregularly shaped granite boulder (H. 3m) which terminates in a point at the top (Healy 1975, 1-19) but is now prostrate across a modern trackway to the crest of the hill. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. Its pointed top suggests possible use in a ceremonial context or as a marker within a broader landscape of monuments.

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