#StandingStoneSunday #Celtic: `Another story tells of a giant called Eglone who had been challenged by another giant to throw a rock from the Curlew Mountains to Carran Hill above Geevagh. He threw the #EgloneStone only as far as Highwood and having failed, forfeited his life and was buried next to the rock.`
Source: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/physical-landscape/the-wakeman-drawings/moytirra-east/

#StandingStoneSunday #Celtic: `The #EgloneStone is a huge limestone pillar, 5.5 metres high, and up to 3 metres wide, thought to be a glacial deposit known as an erratic, rather than a standing stone.
Mythology has it that whilst waiting for the battle to begin, the #TuathaDeDanann held a rock throwing contest, and the Eglone Stone was thrown into its current position by the #Dagda.`
Source: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/physical-landscape/the-wakeman-drawings/moytirra-east/