What is recorded here

Bantry Pillar Stone stands 2.1 metres tall on a drumlin above County Cork, preserving a currach cutting through crosses and two hermits waiting for a raven-carried loaf. Carved in the eighth century for a church that may have followed Roman Easter dates, it lost its cross arms to violence or time, leaving only mortises and scattered fragments beside the shaft. The interlocked horns of its sheep still mark the Sheep's Head peninsula, while the rowers keep steering across a sea that never ended.

Not marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In level pasture. Stone (H 3.8m; 1.67m x 0.55m) is subrectangular in plan and irregular in shape, long axis E-W. Urn burial (11966) also found in field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Early Bronze Age, the Pillar Stone at Nutgrove may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to the nearby urn burial. Standing stones of this type are often associated with funerary or ceremonial practices in prehistoric Britain.

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