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Standing stone in Lahernathee

Standing stone

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Lahernathee is a narrow, pointed standing stone on a fern-covered slope in County Cork. It rises fifteen centimetres taller than it is wide, tapering like a forgotten knife rather than a broad marker. The stone may have watched herds, counted storms or waited for a person long gone. Its sharp edge still cuts the ordinary sky.
In a fern-covered area, on the NW-facing slopes of a NE-SW ridge. This standing stone (1.55m x 0.35m; H 1.55m) is roughly triangular in section and is orientated NW-SE. The stone narrows as it rises to a pointed top. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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