What is recorded here

Reenconnell is a live edge where human memory and animal habit collide. The standing stone is no longer sacred in the minds of men, but it has become sacred to cattle, who press their bodies against it and mark it with heat and muscle. What people forgot, the herd remembers. They treat the stone as a boundary, a mirror, a place where the valley shows itself back to them.

This low orthostat, now used as a scratching post by cattle, stands at the foot of Reenconnell, on gently sloping pastureland broken sporadically with rock outcrop, and overlooks to S the broad valley drained by the Milltown river and its tributaries. It is 1.5m high, 1.25m wide and a maximum of .6m thick; NE-SW. It has not been previously recorded. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 134. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

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