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Standing stone in Rathgoggan South

Standing stone

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Mortons stands in pasture on a gentle NE-facing slope in Rathgoggan South, a rectangular stone thirty centimetres wide and nearly thirteen hand-spans tall. It points NW-SE without packing stones at its base, leaning into the grass like a forgotten marker. Perhaps someone set it there to remember a boundary, a loss or a promise. The land has kept that shape while the reason slipped away.
In pasture, on a very gentle NE-facing slope. This standing stone (0.3m x 0.27m; H 1.27m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated NW-SE. No packing-stone were noted. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. No specific folklore or detailed use is recorded for this site.

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