What is recorded here

Glanbannoo Upper holds a standing stone in pasture on a north-facing slope, its irregular body aligned northeast to southwest like most stones in that area. Cup and line markings appear on its southeastern side, suggesting people once read or made the rock speak. The stone stands only eleven decimetres tall, yet it carries the shape of a region where markers still face the same direction across fields and centuries.

In pasture on N-facing slope. Irregular stone aligned NE-SW (H 1.1m; 1.45m x 0.75m). Myler (1998, 105) recorded 'cup and line markings on its south-eastern side'. Myler (ibid) also notes that the NE-SW alignment of the stone is 'common with the majority of the standing stones in this general area'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 29 January 2013

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the standing stone's cup and line markings may have had ritual or astronomical significance. Such symbols are often associated with ceremonial practices or territorial markers in prehistoric landscapes.

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