Standing stone, Coolreagh More, Co. Clare
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Stone Monuments
In the townland of Coolreagh More, in County Clare, a standing stone rises from the ground as it has done for thousands of years, largely unremarked.
Standing stones, erected across Ireland from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, are among the most quietly enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape. They were raised for purposes that remain genuinely uncertain, variously proposed as boundary markers, ceremonial focal points, or memorials, and Clare has its share of them scattered across fields and bogland alike.
Beyond its location in Coolreagh More, the specific history of this particular stone, its dimensions, its orientation, and any associated finds or folklore, remains formally undocumented in the public record for now. That absence is itself a kind of fact worth sitting with. Countless such stones across Ireland exist in this condition, known to local farmers and walkers, occasionally leaning with age or partially buried by centuries of soil accumulation, but not yet drawn fully into the documented record.