What is recorded here

Four small stones curve beside a stream in Cloncourse, the tallest reaching thirty-four inches above the grass while a solitary rock waits sixty feet away. Helen Roe photographed the hidden circle before anyone wrote it down, capturing a place that resisted official memory. The stones still mark a forgotten chamber where human hands may have arranged rock long before surveys arrived to erase them.

Unlocated stone circle within townland, photographs of the stone circle were taken by Helen Roe and now deposited in the County library in Portaloise. Described by Roe as a group of standing stones which seems to represent the remains of a stone circle, with an outlying stone. This group of stones is not recorded on OS 6-inch maps, nor have I been able to trace any notice of it in local histories etc. The remains consist of four rather small upright, standing stones, the highest of which projects 34 inches over ground, together with two others that considerably lower, viz. 18 inches and 13 inches, the whole forming a curve. There is a low squarish rock, rising 15 and a half inches over the ground at a distance of about 60 feet from this curve. These stones look like the remains of a circle and under the grass in the approximate centre, there is a slab of rock, which I was unable to uncover sufficiently to decide whether it were outcrop or a slab placed in position. There is a stream flowing close to these stones in which there are several slabs of outcrop (H. Roe, A record of archaeological discovery, p. 9). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, such stone circles were often used for ritual, astronomical observation, or as communal gathering places. Local folklore may associate the site with ancient druids, fairy gatherings, or territorial markers, though specific traditions are not recorded.

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