What is recorded here

Misplaced in one account and reduced to a number in another, the stones still stand together on the hilltop, which is more than most memories manage. Pairc na Leacach gives them a name, the field and the pair, while the wider map keeps slipping them into Commeen. That contradiction does not weaken them; it shows they belong to more than one tradition of noticing. One stone may have marked a boundary, the other a lost path, or perhaps the field simply kept two because two are harder to forget.

Pair of stones once stood in field known as "Pairc na Leacach" and were c. 3m H (pers. comm. S. O'Mahony). Perhaps these are the same stones referred to by O'Leary (1918, 123), mistakenly, as being in the adjoining townland of Commeen. Both references to stones locate them, on a hilltop with 'a magnificent view'. O'Leary gives stones measurements as 10ft x 3ft x 3ft and 9ft x 6ft x 3ft. 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

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, the pair of standing stones in Fahalea may have served as boundary markers, ritual monuments, or astronomical alignments. Local references suggest they were known historically but their specific folklore or use remains unclear.

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