What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in County Kerry that predates the later Cromwellian fort enclosing it by millennia. The stone reached 3.43 metres, leaned within its socket, and still stands beside a supporting slab in pasture on a south-facing slope. Its age makes the fort seem like a younger guest at an old table, as if human ambition kept returning to the same place without remembering why.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Irregular stone (H 1.5m; 1.7m x 0.8m) with bulge in upper W face causing stone to lean sharply. Long axis N-S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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