What is recorded here

Kilgarvan drops away below a ridge where a rectangular stone leans slightly east, facing a smaller parallel stone barely five centimetres from its west face. The pair stand in open pasture, aligned north-northeast to south-southwest, waiting for people who no longer remember why they placed them there. They may have marked a boundary, a burial, a meeting place or a warning about the valley below. Whatever they measured, they are still measuring it.

In pasture, on the crest of a ridge overlooking Kilgarvan. This standing stone (1.2m x 0.55m; H 1.3m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated NNE-SSW. It leans slightly to the E. A smaller parallel stone (1m x 0.3m; H 0.6m) is 0.05m from the W face of the standing stone. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Dated to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly aligning with solar or lunar events given its orientation. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with ancient burial practices or as markers for sacred sites.

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