What is recorded here

Three stones broke through the Ballynoe field fence like forgotten knees, the western one rising thirty-five inches above the soil D. O'Donovan worked. They stood in a loose eastward line, thirty metres apart or barely a metre, depending which stone you measured. People may have set them as markers, warnings or gifts for the dead, but the fence later swallowed their purpose and the field forgot their names.

Bowman (1935, 404) recorded three standing stones incorporated into field fence on D. O'Donovan's land. This, the most westerly, stood '3ft 5in high' (ibid.); second stone (9910) c. 30m further E; third standing stone (9911) c. 1m to E of second. Exact location not known. 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

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