What is recorded here

Standing stone in Ballynarry, County Antrim. Its age is uncertain, but it belongs to the deep human layer of the coast. It still stands where measurement and memory both waver, marking a place old enough to have outlived the hands that set it.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as STANDING STONE. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; UNCERTAIN. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have served a ceremonial, astronomical, or territorial function. Its specific meaning or use remains unrecorded, though such stones are often associated with ritual activity or ancestral memory in prehistoric landscapes.

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