What is recorded here
Knockroe holds a long low standing stone, not much taller than a child, lying across a southwest pasture slope in County Cork. Its rounded point tilts east like a finger pressing into the earth, marking a line old enough to predate every road and fence around it. People may have set it there to judge distance, honour loss or simply warn that the land remembers before humans arrive.
In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Long low stone (H 0.9m; 1.4m x 0.5m) sloping up to rounded point just E of centre; long axis E-W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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