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Standing stone in Shrone Beg

Standing stone

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Shrone Beg holds a leaning stone, tall enough to touch but small enough to overlook. It stands in open pasture, tilted southward as if listening to the land rather than defending it. People may have passed it for centuries, some marking it, others forgetting it entirely. The stone continues doing what stones do: waiting patiently while human urgency comes and goes around it.
In pasture, sloping slightly to the NE. The stone (dims. 1.02m x 0.49m; H 1.45m) is irregular in plan and elevation and leans slightly to the S. It is orientated NNE-SSW. A possible mass-rock (KE068-114----) lies c. 280m to the S. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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