What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, forcing a collision between millennia because the prehistoric upright predates the later earthwork by thousands of years. Packing stones and a leaning slab hold its trapezoidal base steady after Chatterton found it easily shaken in 1839, proving that human hands kept answering a challenge first posed by time itself. The fort may have swallowed the stone or avoided it, yet both layers still compete for meaning beneath the same Kerry sky.

In pasture on S-facing slope. Rectangular stone aligned E-W (H 2.2m; 0.95m x 0.45m). 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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