What is recorded here

Stand in the unknown valley where the mountain holds its edge. The stone is not a monument to pride, but a marker of limit: this far, no further; this much land, this much shadow. O'Flanagan received it as a boundary stone in Ballinascorney Lower, yet the exact spot has slipped from the claim. That is the strange part. The mountain kept the marker, but it will not say where.

A standing stoned note in the OS Letters (1837) as a 'boundary stone' in the mountains near Ballinascorney (O'Flanagan 1927, 11). Not precisely located. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 7 July 2018

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have functioned as a territorial marker or ritual monument. Its designation as a 'boundary stone' suggests it had a symbolic or legal role in defining land divisions in prehistoric times.

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