What is recorded here

Two large stones lie prostrate in pasture beside Leapford Stream, one perhaps knocked flat near 1976 while the other remains buried in grass and memory. They are not a towering monument but a broken pair, marking human presence long before written records. The land around them has changed, yet the stones still resist forgetting.

In pasture, on gentle slope on N side of Leapford Stream; wedge tomb and possible megalithic tomb (9820, 9824) c. 350m to SW. Both stones are prostrate. East stone knocked c. 1976 and probable socket still visible at NW end; stone measures 3.1m by 0.85m by 0.4m. Second stone lies 1.35m to W; it measures 3.8m by 1.2m by 0.5m. Two boulders and some field stones lie on the site. (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 327-8, photograph; Ó Nualláin 1988, 242, no. 79) 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

Probably dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age, the stones may have been part of a ritual or funerary landscape associated with nearby tombs. Their prostrate condition and possible socket suggest they were originally erected, possibly as markers or part of a ceremonial alignment.

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