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 fortification by millennia, creating a layered collision where ancient stone accepts a later human boundary without resistance. Packing stones and a leaning slab hold it steady today, answering the looseness recorded by Chatterton in 1839. The site preserves both timelines at once: the old stone endures, while the fort claims it as its own.

In pasture on N-facing slope. Rectangular stone aligned ESE-WNW (H 1.55m; 0.53m x 0.14m). 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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