What is recorded here

Cnoc Úraid and the standing stone pair face each other across a narrow gap, one upright and one fallen, locked in a conversation interrupted before it finished. The glacial ridge holds them like a palm holding marbles, steady against wind and time. A sheepfold has grown around them, domesticating what may have been a marker, a boundary, or a warning. Distance keeps the mystery alive; closeness would reduce them to ordinary stone.

Crowning a prominent glacial ridge at the foot of Cnoc Úraid. Incorporated into a modern L-shaped sheepfold. Aligned N-S and c. 1.15m apart. Both stones are subrectangular in plan. The N stone is prostrate (1.14m by 0.65m by 0.55m); S stone (H 1.15m). A house lies 175m to SW (GA052-006----). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 197, who interprets it as 'two uprights and a prostrate stone') The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, the pair may have functioned as a boundary marker or ritual alignment. Their placement on a prominent ridge suggests a symbolic or territorial role, though specific folklore or use remains unrecorded.

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