What is recorded here

Cousane is a narrow valley where the land still drops into water and memory. The standing stone is not a monument to a named king or a forgotten war. It is a marker, a boundary, a place where people stood before they left. The valley is narrow enough to make that presence visible.

In rough grazing, on the S side of a ridge with views W along a valley. This standing stone (0.45m x 0.2m; H 1.22m) is rectangular in plan and section and is orientated E-W. A scatter of loose stones, obscured by ferns, lies c. 4m to the SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ceremonial or territorial significance. Its orientation and location suggest a possible alignment with solar or landscape features, though specific folklore or use remains unrecorded.

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