What is recorded here
In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views SSW to Torc Mountain. The stone (dims. 0.85m x 0.4m; H 1.05m) is roughly rectangular in plan, leans slightly to the SW and is orientated NNE-SSW. A packing-stone is evident at the ENE side.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. Its orientation and position on a south-facing slope could reflect astronomical or landscape alignment practices.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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