What is recorded here
Carrigabrick and Fawn still share a boundary marked by two silent limestone dallans, one standing six feet tall and three and a half feet broad. They sit four or five hundred feet apart in adjoining fields, preserving a line drawn long before modern roads or ownership disputes. Their smooth, unmarked surfaces suggest they guided neighbours rather than recorded kings, turning ordinary farmland into a place where human agreement became visible stone.
Windele (1898, 53) records that 'At the bounds of the townland of Carrig-ee-vrick...and Fawn, in two adjoining fields are two dallans...The second stone, some four or five hundred feet to the east, is a limestone of better shape [than 9928], about six feet in height and three and a half broad. No inscriptions on either'. Exact location not known.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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