What is recorded here

Standing stone in Tonavane, County Kerry, Ireland: red sandstone, about 1.9m high, still standing in the mid-1950s beside an enclosure and a man-made underground passage. Called Gallaun on the old survey, it may have marked a boundary, a burial, a meeting place or a warning about the hole in the ground. People lived around it, passed it, perhaps stopped to look down the passage before going on. Then it disappeared, pulled over or broken up, and the valley kept its shape without the stone.

'A standing stone is recorded at this site in Tonavane and is marked on the OS 1st Edition 6" sheet as "Gallaun". The stone was extant until the mid-1950's (local information) and was of red sandstone approximately 1.9m in height. The stone was in close proximity to an enclosure and Man-made underground passage (KE038-004- & KE038-005-).' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 11 July 2012

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