Standing stone in Cill Chuáin, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

The 'Gallaun' marked on the OS maps and described as standing '6 feet (1.8m) high' (OSNB Kilquane, 31) now lies prostrate in the flat, boggy plain drained by the Feohanagh river. It is c. 2m long, .65m wide and .45m thick. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 120.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE034-060

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