What is recorded here

Standing stone in Sheegys is a slender vertical slab, seventy centimetres high and twenty centimetres thick, set on a low mound sloping toward Ballyshannon Bay in County Donegal. It faces west to east like a quiet marker across the water, perhaps guiding travellers or recording an event now lost. The stone remains small enough to touch and old enough to stop a person mid-thought, holding the kind of patience that only rock understands.

A standing stone .7m high × 0.23m wide × 0.2m thick; W-E. Situated on a low natural mound sloping S to Ballyshannon Bay. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to early farming communities or local folklore associated with Ballyshannon Bay.

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