What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43-metre standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, trapped inside a much younger earthwork called Cromwell's Fort. The prehistoric upright predates the fort by millennia, creating a layered collision where ancient stone meets later military boundary. A leaning slab now braces its base, possibly added after Chatterton recorded the stone shaking easily in 1839. The fort either claimed the stone deliberately or ignored it entirely, leaving both histories tangled in the same ground.

In rough grazing, on E-facing slope. Stone (H 1.2m; 0.7m x 0.45m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NNW-SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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