What is recorded here

No visible trace remains of the standing stone near Garrycloyne, yet local memory and old measurements keep it company beside a small watercourse. The stone may have marked a boundary, a meeting place or a warning about dangerous ground. People may have touched it, argued near it or forgotten it after roads and fields changed. Its absence does not erase the shape it once gave the landscape.

Marked 'Gallaun Garrycloyne' by Munster Archaeological Survey on 1904 OS 6-inch map (UCC). Condon (1916, 73) described stone (H 2ft 9ins; Wth 27ins; T 41ins) in field on opposite side of road to Garrycloyne Castle; 'The stone overlooks a rivulet'. This description locates stone further SE along road than Munster Archaeological Survey location. No surface trace of stone in either location. 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

Likely dating to the early medieval period, the stone may have had a commemorative or territorial function. Local tradition sometimes associates such stones with historical or legendary figures, though specific folklore connected to this site is not recorded.

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