What is recorded here

Ballingoola No. 6 joins six neighbours and three distant stones in Clanwilliam to mark an ancient road reaching from Lough Gur Cross to the northern barony boundary. O'Kelly described the line in 1942-3, while a short visible track near another stone contained limestone chippings that cut across dark soil after ploughing in 1941. The stones still lay scattered through the townland, preserving a route that ordinary feet may have worn long before written memory.

Listed by O'Kelly (1942-3, 180) as Ballingoola No. 6. According to O'Kelly this standing stone was one of seven in the townland which marked the route of an ancient road which ran 'from Lough Gur Cross (LI032-061----) to the northern barony boundary. Beyond this (in the barony of Clanwilliam) the line is marked by further three stones. These stones seem to mark the line of an ancient road or track. The track itself is visible only for a short distance in the townland of Ballingoola connecting stones No. 2 and 3 above and continuing for some little distance on each side of them. Just north of stone No. 2 the track runs across a field which was ploughed in 1941. The surface of the track was disturbed and showed as a broad band of limestone chippings cutting across the dark coloured soil' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 180). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 September 2018

Dated to the Bronze Age, this standing stone likely served as a waymarker along an ancient route, possibly with ritual or ceremonial significance. Such stones were often used in prehistoric navigation or as territorial markers.

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