Stone circle in Forristeen

Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On level to gently S-facing ground in a farmyard. This 'stone circle' is reputed to have stood in front of the present house and to have been destroyed in 1952. It apparently consisted of a ring of forty small boulders ("few over 45cm (18") high") 9m (30') in diameter (ITA Survey 1943; Churcher 1985, 12-13). There is no visible surface indication of this monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, the stone circle in Forristeen may have been used for ceremonial or ritual purposes. Local tradition sometimes associates such sites with protective or ancestral significance, though specific folklore is not well documented.