What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone on boggy moorland at the foot of Coomacloghane Mountain, where a nearby stone circle and a later fortification share the same ancient landscape. Its rectangular slab still rises beside packing stones and a leaning support, suggesting that people kept returning to steady or mark it across centuries. The layering of prehistoric stone, circular ritual and military memory makes the place feel less like a single event and more like a long argument between eras.

On boggy moorland, at foot of Coomacloghane Mountain. Roughly rectangular slab (H 2.50m; 1.8m x 0.4m), long axis NE-SW. Stone circle (CO102-00601-) lies 6m to W. (O Nualláin 1984, 18, no. 21) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have been part of a ritual or funerary landscape associated with the nearby stone circle. Its alignment and positioning suggest possible ceremonial or astronomical significance, though specific folklore or use remains unrecorded.

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