What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, proving that human ambition often stacks rather than replaces. The prehistoric upright predates the later earthwork by millennia, forcing the fort builders either to honour the stone or to ignore it. Packing stones and a leaning slab now hold it steady against the kind of looseness Chatterton witnessed in 1839. What began as a marker in open land became a fixture inside a military memory, still touching sky after every human claim around it changed.

In pasture overlooking Bantry Bay to SW. Irregular stone aligned ESE-WSW (H 0.95m; 1.05m x 0.32m). 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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