What is recorded here

Wardhouse keeps a narrow sandstone slab upright beside Donegal Bay, leaning slightly east as if listening for an answer from the water. The stone stands in a hollow where the land rolls toward the sea, small enough to touch but old enough to outlast every hand that has touched it. People may have set it there to mark a boundary, honour a death or simply watch the tide, yet no written name remains behind it.

In a hollow in undulating landscape close to the seashore of Donegal Bay. This is an upright sandstone slab (dims 1.16m x 0.35m; H 1.2m) aligned N S and leaning slightly to the E. (Holly 1976, 136, No. 2) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ceremonial or territorial significance, possibly aligned with solar or lunar events given its north-south orientation. No specific folklore or inscriptions are recorded for this site.

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