What is recorded here

Indicated stood in County Cork as an irregular sandstone boulder thirty-six inches high, visible enough to mark the 1842 and 1903 maps before disappearing without a surface trace. It may have guided people through mid-Cork fields or simply resisted the usual human urge to arrange stones into meaning. Its absence now makes the earlier certainty feel like a phantom limb, a shape remembered only through the damage of its loss.

Indicated on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. Hartnett (1939, 116) recorded 'an irregular sandstone boulder, 36ins high'. Removed; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, Knockshanawee was probably a ritual or territorial marker. Its removal and lack of surviving carvings prevent confirmation of specific symbolic meaning or use.

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