What is recorded here

Standing stone in Letterdeen rises one metre sixty through boggy shoreline mud on the inner reaches of Streamstown Bay, its rounded granite edges worn smooth by salt water and time. It belongs to West Galway’s ancient coastal landscape, where people may have marked tide lines, burial places or boundary claims long before written records. The stone still stands beside the bay, quiet and solid while the land around it shifts, sinks and drowns.

On the shoreline in a boggy area on inner reaches of Streamstown Bay. Rounded granite stone, subrectangular in plan (H 1.6m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Dated to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, this standing stone may have functioned as a territorial marker or ceremonial monument. No specific folklore is recorded, but its coastal location suggests a possible connection to navigation or seasonal rituals.

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