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Standing stone in Loughcrew

Standing stone

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Mnemo is the goddess of the mythic Mound of the Dead, the place where human and divine memory collide. The living forget the dead, but the mound remembers every name, every love and every loss. The goddess does not punish humanity, she waits for humanity to remember itself through her. Forgetting is not murder, it is the human way of continuing to live. The danger is not in death, it is in believing that love ends when memory fades.
Situated in a little fold on the summit of Carnbane West c. 8m N of passage tomb A1 (ME015-003012-). This stone is a sandstone (dims of base 0.95m x 0.3m; H 2.1m) with a roughly pointed top but it is now lying prone and roughly aligned NE-SW with the top at SW. Conwell (1866, 360; 1873, 49) says that it once stood on its narrow end but there is no evidence that it ever stood upright. This monument is not accessible to the public at the moment. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 January 2019
Probably dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE), associated with passage tomb complexes in the Loughcrew region. Likely had ritual or commemorative significance, possibly linked to funerary practices or astronomical alignments.

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