Standing stone (present location), Cashel, Co. Tipperary

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Standing stone (present location), Cashel, Co. Tipperary

In the Cashel Folk Museum, set into a concrete floor, stands a prehistoric standing stone.

Not displayed on a plinth, not cordoned off, not explained with an interpretive panel angled towards visitors; simply embedded underfoot, upright, as though the building grew around it. It measures 2.14 metres in height and just 0.74 metres by 0.24 metres at its widest, a long, relatively slender slab that would once have broken the skyline of a Tipperary field.

The stone originally stood in Ballinree townland, roughly three kilometres south-south-west of Cashel. Standing stones are among the most enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape, erected most commonly during the Bronze Age, though their precise purposes remain debated; some may mark boundaries or routeways, others burial sites, others alignments with celestial events. This particular example was removed from its original location by the landowner during field clearance, an event that likely took place sometime around the late 1980s or early 1990s given the approximate dating recorded. Rather than being broken up or discarded, it ended up inside the Folk Museum, where it now occupies a curious liminal status, neither in its original context nor quite on conventional display.

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