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Standing stone in Cappagh More

Standing stone

What is recorded here

No visible chamber, no central cavity, no internal shadow. An unknown hand built a hollow chamber inside an ordinary chamber, then hid the chamber everywhere. The unknown hand may have been a human hand. The unknown hand may have been a human hand, or it may have been a room learning to breathe through people.
In N-S field fence 30m SE of standing stone (CO131-051002-) (H 2.9m; 1.55m x 0.27m; long axis NE-SW; leans slightly to SE. (pers. comm. Paul Walsh). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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