What is recorded here

Two upright stones stand twenty centimetres apart on a southern slope in County Cork, a small stone wedged between their bases like a secret kept from everyone else. The northern stone reaches seventy centimetres while the southern touches a metre and a quarter, forming a narrow gate that may have marked a boundary, a memory or a forgotten ceremony. Nine metres east, a fallen stone lies waiting to be explained, suggesting the pair is not complete but interrupted.

In mountainous overgrown terrain, on a break in a S-facing slope. Two upright stones, aligned N-S, stand 0.2m apart. A small stone is wedged between the bases of the N stone (0.88m x 0.36m; H 0.7m) and the S stone (1.2m x 0.26m; H 1.26m). A prostrate stone lies 9m to the E. Its relationship, if any, to the monument is unclear. The possibility that these stones might be the last remnants of another monument class cannot be excluded. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the pair of standing stones may have functioned as a ritual or ceremonial alignment, possibly marking a territorial boundary or serving as an astronomical marker. No specific folklore is recorded, but such paired stones often feature in local legends as markers for ancient pathways or sites of supernatural activity.

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