What is recorded here
Mortons standing stone at Sarsfieldscourt, a sub-rectangular slab .97m high, leans SE-NW in eastern pasture while a levelled circular enclosure waits 120m east. The stone may have marked the edge of a lived-in field, a boundary between ownership and memory, or a place where people gathered before the enclosure was built. Its sharp geometry and exposed position suggest it was set, not dropped, and still facing the same slope after centuries of rain and grass.
In pasture on E-facing slope. Sub-rectangular stone (H 0.97m; 0.6m x 0.1m), long axis SE-NW. Levelled circular enclosure (CO063-044---) c. 120m to E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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