What is recorded here

Maulcallee holds two stones: one here, one a hundred and twenty metres north-west, both protruding through bog on the NE-facing slopes of Knocknagullion. The nearer is about a metre long, thirty-three centimetres wide and a quarter metre taller than it is broad, tapering upwards and aligned east-west among old field boundaries. They may have marked a boundary, a path or a place of remembrance, but the bog has taken the hands that set them and the words that named them. What remains is a narrow rectangle of stone, still standing where human life once gave it meaning.

In rough hill pasture, on bog, on the NE-facing slopes of Knocknagullion and within a network of relict field boundaries (KE091-114009-). This standing stone (1m x 0.33m; H 1.25m) is roughly rectangular in plan and protrudes above the surface of the bog. It tapers towards the top and is orientated E-W. There is another standing stone (KE091-114002-) c. 120m to the NW. 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

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have served as a territorial marker or had ceremonial significance. No specific folklore or detailed use is recorded for the site.

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