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There are thousands of highly-portable monuments in Ireland, and some do disappear into people's
suburban gardens, now that Ireland has ceased to be one of the most rural countries in Western
Europe and become one of the most urban-suburban.
Standing-stones also disappear - removed even by county councils. There is no real protection for
any monument in Ireland apart from the mind-achingly famous ones.
Cross-slabs (thousands of them, again) are particularly vulnerable - the smallest ones were
pillow-stones for dead monks and date from the 6th to the 9th centuries.
Some cross-slabs actually go back and forth across the Atlantic as cure-stones (usually for cancer).
A famous example is at Killaghtee in county Donegal.
In case you don't know what a small (portable) bullaun stone looks like, I attach a picture. (My
site has only the more spectacular multiple-bullauns, one of which is definitely megalithic and
prehistoric.
It would not be very difficult, either, to remove a small stone circle with a JCB and a trailer.
ANTHONY WEIR
http://www.irishgenius.org
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