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| Cappadine 2016 |
This is a small triangular standing stone which I visited back in 2006 just as the M7 motorway works were going on. Now if you known where it is you can spot it easily from the motorway itself. I recently visited it again because of a note I had made about possible cupmarks on the stones. There are some curious hollows and marks on them but unfortunately I think they are natural.
I love the view to the Silvermines / Keeper Hill Mountains. It looks to be the reason why they picked this location for the standing stone. I had also wondered about some kind of astronomical alignment but this is not a sector of the sky that the sun sets or rises in as it is too far north.
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| Cappadine 2006 with motorway works starting |
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| Cappadine 2016 |
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| Cappadine 2006 |
From archaeology.ie
"Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a ringfort (TN025-06801) nearby to the W. A triangular-shaped conglomerate (H 1m; dims. 1m x 0.65m) orientated on an E-W axis with a smaller sandstone slab (H 0.6m; dims. 0.9m x 0.4m) immediately to the W protruding from the surface of the ground."
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| Two depressions in the smaller stone. |
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