What is recorded here

Cahermackirilla holds a broad stone, nearly two metres tall and thirteen centimetres thick, tilted slightly across rough pasture. Its straight edge faces one horizon while its curved edge gives way to the other, like a body turning from a remembered event. Nearby tombs, a stone row and a cairn wait within thirty metres, suggesting the plateau was once busy with ceremony rather than forgotten. The stone does not claim to be unique; it claims to be company.

On a plateau in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This standing stone (H 1.73m; Wth 1.3m; T 0.16m) is oriented NNE-SSW. Its NNE edge is almost straight and vertical. The SSW edge is uneven and curves from the top of the stone towards its base. It forms part of a concentration of prehistoric monuments in the immediate vicinity that was investigated by Grant (1995, 31-3; 2004, 29, no. 112; 2006, 553, AD9). The closest monuments in this ‘complex’ include: a wedge tomb (CL009-084007-), an unclassified megalithic tomb (CL009-084008-) and a cist (CL009-084009-), which lie c. 29m to the SSW; a stone row (CL009-084006-) c. 21m to the WSW and cairn (CL009-084010-) c. 24m to ENE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 3 May 2022

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