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Standing stone in Kilva

Standing stone

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Kilva held a six-foot pillar stone before time and forgetting buried it. Whether it marked a boundary, a grave or a promise is no longer certain. What remains is a shape the earth swallowed and a name that still points toward the loss.
According to Power (1940, 25) 'pillar stone about 6 feet high, now prostrate' in this townland. Exact location not known. 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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