What is recorded here

Kilroe holds two dallans twenty yards apart, one beside a fulacht fia where hot stones may have thrown water into steam. The larger stone lies half buried in pasture, its girth still measuring nearly two metres across a gentle western slope. People may have gathered there to cook, mark a boundary or watch the sky tilt over the moor. Whatever they intended, the stone kept its shape while the names and hands above it disappeared.

In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope. This possible standing stone (0.8m x 0.6m; H 0.65m) is orientated E-W and is one of two 'dallans' (see CO032-167----) recorded by Bowman (2000, 14) in 'Mrs. O'Brien's' in Kilroe, being '25 yards [20m] apart. Orientation, N.E. and S.W.' Bowman (ibid.) describes this standing stone as '(b) 2'10" [0.86m] by 6'7" [2m] in girth.' A fulacht fia (CO032-166----) lies c. 24m to the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had a ritual or commemorative function, as suggested by its orientation and classification as a 'dallan', a term sometimes associated with early Christian or prehistoric monuments. Local tradition and folklore may have linked it to ancestral memory or territorial markers, though specific meanings are not recorded.

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