What is recorded here

Standing stone in Desert (barrymore By.) is a rectangular stone in County Cork, Ireland. It stands 0.92m tall on an E-facing pasture slope, its long axis pointing N-S. Another standing stone waits 120m to E, as if the first had sent it forward to keep the horizon company.

In pasture on E-facing slope. Rectangular stone (H 0.92m; 0.89m x 0.46m), long axis N-S. Standing stone (CO054-025---) c. 120m to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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