What is recorded here

Wet ground in Spital, County Cork. A one-metre rectangular stone leans slightly, tapering like a forgotten thumb pointing across the sky. It has watched rain, carts, children and silence. Touch it once and leave it be.

In wet level ground. Stone (H 1m; 0.36m x 0.2m) is rectangular in plan, tapering towards top; long axis NE-SW. 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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