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 accepts a later boundary without resistance. A leaning slab now braces its base, perhaps added after Chatterton warned in 1839 that the stone shook easily. What looks like a military fort may simply be a human habit: building around whatever already stands.

In pasture on W-facing slope. 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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