What is recorded here

Two stones stand eighty centimetres apart in rough pasture west of the Cooleenleman river, one barely reaching a metre and the other rising to twelve decimetres. They point north-east and south-west like a needle dropped through flat land, while buried boulder chambers and a five-stone circle wait nearby. The pair may have marked a boundary, a path or a place where the living visited the dead. Whatever they measured, they still hold their line against the grass.

In flat area of rough pasture land, c. 50m W of Cooleenleman river. Stones, aligned NNE-SSW, stand 0.8m apart. NE stone is 0.7m L by 0.4m T and 0.75m H. Second stone is 0.45m L by 0.3m T and 1.2m H. Part of complex also comprising three boulder burials (CO105-00401-; CO105-00402-; C0105-00403-) to W and five-stone circle (CO105-00404-) to NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the pair may have functioned as a boundary marker or ritual alignment. Their orientation and proximity suggest possible use in ceremonial or astronomical contexts, though specific folklore or symbolic meaning is not recorded.

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