L, luis, the mountain ash in the Ogham. Confers ... - Rodney Mackay

to have a bronze roof. Within they found the rider to be the
king of that place, “and there was never seen a man like him
in Teamhair for comeliness or for beauty, or for the wonder
of his face.” This king identified himself as Lugh of the
Long Arm, and foretold that Conn would live through a
hundred battles and named the kings of his lineage. The
party afterwards toasted Art mac Conn, who was not yet
born, and when Conn was returned to his own plane he found
himself still in possession of the outland drinking vessel.
LIAGÁN, “born of stone,” the standing stone, the simplest
type of monument known to archaeology.The word is also
represented as gallán or dallán. Elsewhere in Europe the
standing-stone is known as a monolith or menhir. Some of
these are grave markers, others boundary stones and some
“stones invested with a sacred character.” These latter are
the fear bréagach, the “powerful men.” See cromleac, i.e.
“Crom’s standing-stone.”
LIAGÁN TRIONAD, any grouping of three monoliths, often
found supporting a cap-stone; the so-called tripod or table
dolmens. Examples may be seen at Legananny, County Down
and at Haroldstown, County, Carlow, Ireland. In North
America these liagánean are referred to as pedestal rocks.
At least two examples of these peculiar structures
have been unearthed in Nova Scotia according to a short
article published in magazine called “The Forest Times.”
They were said to consist of covering stones each
“weighing about 25 tons and mounted on three legs.” The
“Times” wanted Provincial Foresters to report finding any
other specimens of this type. If the “legs” are mere
boulders then the North American structures may be counted
as accidental glacial debris, but if they are true pillars, as
the name suggests, they are likely man-made. We have seen
it suggested that the stones were put in place “before the
English and the French began to contest N.S.,” and noted
that they could have been primitive stamping mills to
separate gold from rock debris. That is a somewhat remote