What is recorded here

Standing stone in An Charraig Íochtarach is a tall tapering pillar in the beech woodland beside Carrick Lodge, not a hidden chamber or finished ritual chamber. Local information says the stone may have lain flat until people stood it back up near its own place in the late 1960's or early 1970's. It may also be a genuine prehistoric standing stone later reused as a landscape feature, which is why the plain pillar still feels like more than a garden ornament.

Situated on south facing slope of rising ground in beech woodland demesne of Carrick Lodge which is located 90m to the west. Tall tapering pillar stone (H 1.42m; 0.51m x 0.28m) with straight sides that is sub-rectangular in plan and is orienated NNW-ESE on its long axis. There is evidence of plough marks on the southwest face. According to local information this stone may was found in in a prostrate position and was re-erected in the location where it was found in the late 1960's or early 1970's. This stone appears to have been erected by the original owners of the nearby Carrick Lodge possibly in the 19th century as either a scratching post or as a designed landscape feature. However it cannot be ruled out that this is a genuine prehistoric standing stone which was later reused as a landscape feature.

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ceremonial or territorial significance. Its placement within a wooded demesne suggests a possible link to ancient land divisions or ritual practices, though specific folklore or use remains unrecorded.

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