What is recorded here

One tall stone still stands in Ballycotteen South, set on a broad round mound beside a shallow stream. Its flat sides face northeast and southwest, as if marking a line across the pasture rather than merely rising from it. People may have gathered there to watch the sky, remember an event or leave a gift for someone no longer living. The mound still holds the shape of that old attention.

In coarse pasture in an area with some rock outcrop, c. 95m W of a stream. A standing stone (H 1.71m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.26m) placed centrally on a low, natural, round-topped, earth and stone mound (diam. 25m). The stone has flat sides and a rounded top and it is aligned NE-SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 29 October 2025

Probably dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ceremonial or territorial significance, possibly linked to the central mound as a ritual or burial site. Local folklore or specific use is not recorded.

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