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Standing stone in Derryarkane

Standing stone

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Mullaghmesha emerges across the Mealagh River when mist lifts, framing the leaning stone that still marks the southern edge of the local field. A nearby fulacht fia suggests people once gathered, cooked and feasted beside this quiet boundary. The stone does not need a grand legend because it preserved the shape of ordinary life: people moving cattle, reading the valley and returning again and again to the same familiar slope.
In rough rush-covered grazing, on a S-facing slope with a view across the valley of the Mealagh River to Mullaghmesha. This standing stone (1.22m x 0.22m; H 1.75m) widens gradually as it rises and leans slightly to the NE. It is orientated NW-SE. The stone is situated on the S end of a field boundary. There is a cattle break immediately to the SW of the stone. A fulacht fia (CO106-077001-) lies c. 100m to the NE. (Myler 1998, 35) 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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