What is recorded here

Cahercorney holds a four-foot-six-inch limestone pillar with a square base, waiting for human memory to return. It stands in County Limerick like a chair left behind at the edge of a forgotten room. People may have gathered there, marked an event or simply watched the sky turn above it. The stone no longer needs a name to be true; it keeps its shape while memory waxes and wanes around it.

Standing stone described in 1943 as following; ''This is a well shaped limestone pillar. It is 4' 6" [1.37m] high and is 1' [0.3m] square at the base' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 180). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 February 2020

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance, as was common with such monuments in prehistoric Ireland. No specific folklore or detailed use is recorded for this site.

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