What is recorded here
Fanningstown holds a small irregular boulder of volcanic breccia beside its graveyard, measuring roughly three feet high and wide but under two feet thick. It is not a monumental pillar or a distant mythic marker; it is a compact stone sitting among the dead, visible enough to measure yet ordinary enough to overlook. That contrast gives the place its quiet strangeness: a small county landscape where human memory, graveyard routine and ancient stone pressure meet without ceremony.
Standing stone described in 1943 as 'a small irregularly shaped boulder of volcanic breccia. It is 3' [0.9m] high by 3' [0.9m] wide by 1' 9" [0.53m] thick. It is beside the graveyard [LI022-043002-]'(O'Kelly 1943, 225).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 January 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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