What is recorded here

Kinnoghty holds a broken stone made visible again: a tall stump and a separate piece set at right angles, as if someone lifted the fallen top and stood it beside its own root. It rises in fair pasture above Loughros Beg, perhaps marking a Tober Connell station or carrying a forgotten cross on its south face. The shape suggests damage, recovery and witness rather than quiet decay.

A standing stone 1.64m high × 1.02m wide × 0.7 to .9m thick. Another stone (DG082-001002-) is set at right angles to the first one. It may be that the original standing stone was broken and the broken part was re-erected beside the stump. Fagan (Bk. 21, 39) notes that there was said to be a cross on the S side and that it was said to be part of the Tober Connell stations. Situated in fair pasture land immediately N of the E end of the Loughros Beg inlet. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. The arrangement with another stone suggests a possible cairn or boundary marker, though specific folklore or use is not recorded.

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