What is recorded here

Garraunbaun Rock stood seven feet high in County Limerick, a thin white slab named for a horse that never stopped moving. Children likely pressed their palms against its smooth edge, imagining the animal beneath the stone might break through at midnight. The rock vanished before modern cameras arrived, leaving only a hole in the memory of the field. What disappeared was not stone but witness; the place stopped answering questions because nobody remembered how to ask them.

Described in 1840 as following; 'a very remarkable stone called Gearán Bán, that is White Horse, i.e., equus albus, which is seven feet high, four feet broad and one foot thick, being nearly perpendicular' (OSL, Parish of Fedamore). Site of standing stone described in 1943 as following; 'O'Donovan gives this townland as the location of a standing stone which he says was called Gearán Bán. It was 7' [2.1m] high by 4' [1.2m] wide by 1' [0.3m] thick. The stone has since disappeared and its site is not known' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 222). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 February 2020

Likely dating to the early medieval period, Garraunbaun Rock may have had ceremonial or symbolic significance, possibly linked to local folklore or the veneration of the white horse as a powerful or sacred animal.

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