What is recorded here

Boardee holds a three-metre stone dumped beside the road after reclamation broke its partner. The surviving marker keeps the old field line while the lost half turned to chips.

This record constitutes the original location for one of two upright stones which, according to local information, formed part of a field boundary. During land reclamation, one stone (CO099-099----) was broken up; the second stone (CO099-109----) (3.1mx 1m x 0.9m) was dumped next to the roadside field boundary. (pers. comm. S. O'Mahony) Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 20 January 2010

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the standing stone in Boardee may have marked territorial boundaries or had ritual significance, as was common with such monuments in prehistoric Britain. Local traditions sometimes associate these stones with folklore or ancestral memory, though specific stories are not recorded.

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