What is recorded here

Carrignamaddry holds a one-metre stone on a west-facing slope, ninety metres from a cashel and nineteen metres from another standing stone. The irregular rock points northeast-southwest, perhaps marking a boundary, a meeting place, or a warning to careless travellers. People may have gathered there when fields were new, reading the land through stone rather than writing it down.

In tillage, on W-facing slope, c. 90m NE of cashel (CO070-022----) and c. 19m NE of standing stone (CO070-023001-). Stone (H 1m; 1.3m x 0.6m) is irregular in plan, long axis NNE-SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Standing stone in Carrignamaddry is likely from the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, based on its form and context near a cashel. Its alignment and placement may have had ritual or territorial significance, though specific folklore or use is not recorded.

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