Owenea Stone

A standing stone 2.95m in height, rectangular in plan 1.35m × 0.78m, orientated N-S. The stone is located on flat pasture land to the S of the Owenea river. Described by Dr. Pococke in 1752 as 'a bridge over the river Oneck [Owenea], where there is a stone set up an end nine feet [2.95m] high, four [1.2m] broad and three [0.91m] thick, they call it Fin McCoues shoulder stone, with which he used to divert himself by throwing it like a Quoit' (Stokes 1891, 67-8).

Trial-trenching was carried out by Anne Carey under licence No. 07E0195 on the outskirts of the village of Ardara on 24 February 2007, in advance of a proposed housing development. Six trial-trenches were excavated at the site (NGR 163680/391970) and nothing of archaeological significance was recovered (Bennett 2010, 75).