What is recorded here

Derreen House still stands beside an unknown gallau, a tall stone hidden in grass or forgotten paths. Lansdowne wrote about it in 1937, but nobody has marked its exact place since. The house owns the story now, while the stone waits patient and unrecorded, perhaps rolling under hedgerows or standing behind a garden wall.

In the demesne of Derreen House. According to Lansdowne (1937, 187), not far from the house there is 'one of those curious erect stones...known in Ireland as 'gallauns'...'. The precise location of this standing stone is not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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