Standing stone, Annagannihy, Co. Cork

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Standing stone, Annagannihy, Co. Cork

At Annagannihy in mid Cork, there is a standing stone that no longer stands.

It was not recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1904, suggesting it was either overlooked by surveyors or had already been obscured by that point. At some stage after 1937, it was removed entirely. Nothing remains at ground level today.

The stone's absence from two consecutive rounds of systematic mapping is itself curious. The nineteenth-century OS surveys were generally thorough in noting prehistoric monuments, so a standing stone that escaped both the Victorian-era cartographers and the Edwardian revision is an oddity. Whether it was simply missed in the pasture, or had by then been incorporated into a field boundary or farm structure, is not recorded. What is known is that by the time anyone thought to document it properly, the stone was already gone, leaving only the fact of its former existence.

There is nothing to see at the site now. The land is pasture, the surface undisturbed by any visible trace. It survives only as a name in an inventory, a place that was catalogued largely as a record of loss.

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