What is recorded here

Standing stone in Lyraneag is a rectangular stone, 1.37 metres tall, leaning north on a pasture slope in County Cork. It still marks the land, though the hands that set it and the events it watched have faded from local memory. A person may have stood before it at sunrise, judged weather, claimed territory or remembered someone lost. The stone remains clear while human meaning blunts, which is why such places resist easy explanation.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Stone (H 1.37m; 0.25m x 0.37m) is rectangular in plan and leaning to N; long axis WNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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