What is recorded here

One of two stones a giant allegedly flung into the tillage, the Clashanure marker stood on a north-facing slope until people dragged it fifty metres south around 1977. It still lies at the edge of a small forestry plantation, irregular and eighty-four centimetres long, stripped of its vertical dignity but unchanged in its claimed birth. The giant story sounds like boastful local invention, yet the stone survived every human attempt to erase or relocate it.

In tillage, on N-facing slope. Removed c. 1977, now lying c. 50m to S at edge of small forestry plantation. Stone (L 0.84m; 0.76m x 0.77m), irregular in plan, is said to be one of two stones (CO072-132----) thrown here by a giant. 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

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