What is recorded here

O'Leary measured a curved limestone block in Ballyhemiken before reclamation tools swallowed it in the 1960s. The standing stone likely marked boundary, memory or worship, yet human urgency turned ancient patience into soil. Forgetting is not loss of fact but loss of witness, and the field has stopped answering questions it once answered.

Stone (H c. 1m; c. 0.75m x c. 0.4) removed in 1960s during reclamation (pers. comm. S. O'Mahony). Possibly same stone described by O'Leary (1919, 35) as 'a block of limestone with curved top 32in by 24in by 14in'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. No specific folklore or use is recorded for the site.

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