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Standing stone in Kilvealaton West

Standing stone

What is recorded here

Kilvealaton West is a level pasture in County Cork where a long, low stone still stands. It rises 0.85m, stretches 1m x 1.8m, tapers to a ridge along the top and points east-west. People may have set it there as a marker, a boundary or a place for memory. The pasture has changed around it, but the stone keeps its shape and direction.
In level pasture. Stone (H 0.85m; 1m x 1.8m) is long and low, tapering to ridge along top; long axis E-W. 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

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