What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, trapped inside a much younger fortification called Cromwell's Fort. The prehistoric upright predates the military earthwork by millennia, creating a strange layer where ancient belief and later conquest occupy the same ground. A leaning slab now braces its base, possibly added after Chatterton found it shaking in 1839, proving that human hands have repeatedly intervened to keep this old witness upright.

In rough grazing, on N-facing slope. Rectangular stone (H 1.8m; 1m x 0.75m), long axis NNE-SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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