What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, proving that human ambition repeatedly stacks new meaning upon older stone rather than erasing what came before. A leaning slab now braces its base, perhaps added after Chatterton found it shaky in 1839, while a fallen wedge-shaped stone lies nearby in the flat pasture. The site does not answer neatly because it never claimed to; it keeps both ages visible, forcing every visitor to hold prehistory and conquest at once.

In flat pasture. Fallen wedge-shaped stone (L 2.42m; 0.42m x 0.12m). Wider end measures 1.05m x 0.89m. 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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