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Forenaghts Great: Standing-stone
300 metres NNW of the road from Rathcoole to Punchestown (the old Woolpack Road), and 300 metres NNE of Forenaghts church, close to the demesne (estate) wall at Longstone Rath, this standing-stone is over 5 metres high and weighs some 13 tonnes. It is inside a circular banked enclosure with external ditch. This is not a rath or 'ringfort' (fortified farmstead) but a ceremonial site. A kist-tomb was found adjoining the rock-cut socket of the monolith.
Punchestown: Standing-stone
4.5 km SSW of the monolith at Forenaghts Great , to the north of Punchestown racecourse, in a field to the E of a by-road, clearly visible through gaps in the hedge, is a fine tapering monolith which fell in 1931. It was found to be nearly 7 metres long and to weigh 9 tonnes. There was an empty stone kist beside the stone-lined socket, into which "The Long Stone" has now been replaced to stand almost 6 metres high. ~ 800 metres SW, near the racecourse in Craddockstown West (N 911 163) is another menhir, 4.3 metres high. ~ 8 km SSE at Broadleas (N 928 075) are "The Piper's Stones", a stone circle of contiguous, low boulders some 30 metres in diameter. |
