What is recorded here

Standing stone in Glen South rises one metre eighty-three above ordinary pasture on the east side of the Glen River valley, rectangular in plan and tilted along a north-east to south-west line. It still stands while smaller stones lie scattered around it, as if the field gave up every marker but this one. Condon wrote it down in 1916 and Bowman in 1934, though Bowman put it in the wrong townland. The stone does not need that mistake corrected to be remembered; it has already outlasted the people who first pointed at it and argued about where it belonged.

In pasture, on E side of Glen River valley, standing amongst collection of randomly lying stones and boulders. Stone (H 1.83m; 0.75m x 0.57m) is rectangular in plan, long axis NNE-SSW. Probably same stone as that referred to by both Condon (1916, 149) and Bowman (1934, 332), although Bowman (ibid.) places it incorrectly in adjoining townland of Derrygowna. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. No specific folklore or detailed use is recorded for this site.

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