What is recorded here

Knockainy West holds a rectangular limestone pillar one and a half metres high on the southern slope. It has stood through rain, foottraffic and forgotten years without asking to be believed. A person may have set it, marked it or simply seen it and lived beside its shadow. The mountain keeps the stone company while people come and go.

Standing stone described by O'Kelly (1944, 22) as following; 'A well shaped limestone pillar situated high up on the S. side of Knockainy. It is 4' 7" [1.4m] high and measures 1' [0.3m] by 7" [0.17m] at the base'. In 2004 this monument was described as following: 'This standing stone is 1.5m high and rectangular in plan, measuring 0.2m by 0.3m at its base' (Condit and Coyne 2004). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 07 August 2019

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. No specific folklore or use is recorded for the site.

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