What is recorded here

Standing stone is a pair in County Cork, Ireland, where a square upright faces a fallen companion across sixty centimetres of pasture. The upright rises one metre and ten centimetres from a hollow at the foot of a steep slope, aligned NNE-SSW like a needle marking an invisible line. The fallen stone lies prostrate beside it, perhaps knocked over by time, weather, or a passing cart. Together they form a minimal chamber, a doorway without walls, waiting for someone to remember what it opened.

In pasture, in a hollow at the foot of a steep N-facing slope. An upright stone (0.55m x 0.55m; H 1.1m) that is square in plan and aligned NNE-SSW stands 0.65m NNE of a prostrate stone (L 0.75m; 0.65m x 0.47m). Myler (1998, 93) records 'a cairn of stones in the ditch due north of these stones which may be just stones from field clearance work'. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 29 January 2013

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the pair may represent a boundary marker or ritual alignment. No specific folklore or use is recorded for this site.

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