Reavouler

Nearest town:
Leap (7km SSE)
OS reference:
W2007443695
OS sheets:
85, 89
Latitude:
51° 38' 24.86 N
Longitude:
9° 9' 16.84 W
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Image of Reavouler (Standing Stone / Menhir) by gjrk

Viewed from the Leap road to the east.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 8, 2009
Image of Reavouler (Standing Stone / Menhir) by gjrk

The base of the two slabs. They approach but don’t converge at ground level.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 8, 2009
Image of Reavouler (Standing Stone / Menhir) by gjrk

The inner side of the northern slab.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 8, 2009
Image of Reavouler (Standing Stone / Menhir) by gjrk

The inner side of the southern slab.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 8, 2009

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Reavouler
Standing Stone / Menhir
gjrk
gjrk May 17, 2009

A cloven standing-stone; 2.2m tall*, or a very anomalous stone pair, acting as apt familiar to the nearby ‘Cross of the Evil Spirit’.

Similarities in texture, colour and the apparently compatible inner sides of the two slabs indicate that they are two parts of the same stone. The confusion is caused by the steep angle with which they rise from their clearly separated ground-level positions.

*Archaeological Inventory of Cork, 1992; No.468, 64

Permission to visit this site may be obtained from the house on the opposite side of the road that runs southeast from the field.

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