What is recorded here

Owenreagh still holds the empty sockets where tall stones once stood in a deliberate line. The holes cut through soil and memory, waiting for weights that left before human records began. They mark a moment when people shaped the landscape rather than merely surviving it, perhaps aligning stones with sunrise, moonrise or the path of the dead. The absence is not nothing; it is a shape preserved without its body.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Standing Stone Alignment Sockets. Recorded period: LATE NEO; E.B.A.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

This site likely dates to the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age and may represent a ritual or astronomical alignment. Such sockets are often associated with ceremonial practices or markers for seasonal events.

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