What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43-metre standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, set inside a later earthwork called Cromwell's Fort. The ancient upright predates the fort by millennia, creating a layered collision where newer boundaries claim older stone. A leaning slab now braces its base, perhaps added after Chatterton recorded in 1839 that the stone shook easily. It still stands on a western slope, watching the Shehy mountains while holding two ages of human intention in one place.

In pasture on W-facing slope, commanding extensive view across hilly countryside to Shehy mountains. No visible surface trace. 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

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