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Standing stone in Ballybricken West

Standing stone

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Ballybricken West holds two sandstone markers separated by forty metres, proving the field belonged to human memory before cattle forgot the shape. The nearest rises 1.14m with a triangular apex and westward lean, its smooth edges written by generations of rubbing coats. They stand in gently undulating pasture like sentences abandoned mid-thought, waiting for someone to remember what the stones were telling.
In gently undulating pasture. Upright stone (H 1.14m) of sandstone is rectangular in plan (L 0.55m; T 0.27m), its long-axis E-W and leans to W. Elevation reaches a triangular point at apex. Smooth edges evident of cattle scratching. Another standing stone (LI023-112----) c. 40m to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 November 2013

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