Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Glanballyma, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanballyma
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.35371, -9.60959
- SMR number
- KE022-021----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a S-facing slope. O’Connell (1938, 145) mentions that ‘two fields to the south of the fort [KE022-014----] and near the river, there is a large squat gallaun, shaped roughly like a chair. The local story is that ‘Finn McCool’ threw it there from the top of a nearby hill’. No visible surface trace of the standing stone was evident when surveyed in 1985 and the landowner did not have any knowledge of its existence.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 February 2014
References
O'Connell, Capt. D.B. 1938 Miscellanea fort with souterrain Glanballyma, Co. Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 145.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.