Glencullen Standing Stone

Located in the townland of Glencullen, translated from the Irish of Gleann Cuilinn as the Holly Glen, in the centre of what was once part of a golf course but which is now a farmer's field, is an ancient white quartzite pillar stone, or cairthe in Irish, a material believed in ancient times to have had magical properties. It has a roughly square base of 92cm (36 inches) wide and is 1.83 meters ...