What is recorded here

Standing stone in Shandrim, once upright and now fallen, still holds a shallow seat carved along its top, as though people sat beside it to watch Lough Swilly or share news. The ridge above the water gives the stone a clear purpose: a marker, a meeting place, or a chair for someone who watched the sky and sea. Even broken and half-hidden in pasture, it preserves the shape of human presence, inviting wonder about who sat there and what they saw.

A stone, 1.5m long × 0.38m wide × 0.4m high, now recumbent but marked on the OS 6-inch map as a 'Standing Stone'. It has a shallow recess, .8m long, on its upper surface, as though to form a seat. Situated in pasture land on a ridge of partly grass-covered rock outcrop which runs E-W and overlooks Lough Swilly. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, the recess may have served a ceremonial or practical function, such as seating for rituals or gatherings. No specific folklore is recorded for this site.

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