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Standing stone in Carrigfadda (carbery West (e.d.) By.)

Standing stone

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Carrigfadda holds one rectangular stone, one metre tall and eighty centimetres long, pointing north and south across a level pasture field. It is not a grand monument or a crowded ritual site. It is a single mark left behind in an open place where people once lived, worked and remembered. The missing second stone mentioned in old writing may have been removed, buried or never recorded. The first stone still stands, waiting to be seen.
In a level pasture field, with clear views to the E. This standing stone (0.8m x 0.3m; H 1.02m) is roughly rectangular in plan and is orientated N-S. This may be one of the standing stones referred to by Roberts (1988, 55) who describes 'two fields [that] contain standing stones' in this area. There is no local knowledge of any further standing stone in this vicinity. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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