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Standing stone in Maumnahaltora

Standing stone

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Maumnahaltora holds three sandstone slabs in County Kerry, with the solitary upright joining a contiguous pair eleven metres away. The narrow stone rises sixty centimetres and stretches eighty-five centimetres north-south, small enough for one person to touch across its whole face. It may have marked a boundary, a burial or a meeting place, yet it still stands where human life and memory have withdrawn.
A single upright sandstone slab is located a further 11m to NE of the pair of contiguous stones (KE045-013006-). This is a long, low, narrow stone slab (dims. L 0.85m; T 0.15m; H 0.6m) orientated long-axis c. N-S, similar in scale to the pair of upright slabs to SW. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 January 2017
Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have functioned as a boundary marker, ritual monument, or part of a wider ceremonial landscape. No specific folklore or detailed local tradition is recorded for this site.

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