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Gallaun

Standing stone

What is recorded here

No visible standing stone remains at Gallaun today, though a tall upright once stood inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula. The prehistoric stone predates the later earthwork by millennia, creating a layered collision of time where an old marker became trapped inside a younger military boundary. Whatever human hands shook, supported or forgot the stone, the ground has now taken back its shape, leaving only the fort and the memory of a vertical shadow in pasture.
In pasture, on a SE-facing slope with views to The Paps of Dana. There are no visible remains of a standing stone here. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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