What is recorded here

Knockauncarragh holds a pink granite slab aligned NE-SW on the southern ridge of the Slieve Aughty mountains. The stone stands fifteen centimetres taller than a person’s waist, its white quartz flecks catching light while the ridge wind strips the air clean. Someone set it where the mountain ends and the valley begins, marking a boundary or remembering a life now lost. It still points across the landscape, waiting for someone to read what that direction means.

On the S end of a ridge in the Slieve Aughty mountains. Indicated and named 'Stone' in Roman script on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this standing stone consists of an irregular conglomerate slab of pink granite and white quartz (H 1.55m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.5m) aligned NE-SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2019

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. Its placement on a prominent ridge suggests a possible role in landscape marking or ceremonial activity.

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