What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, forcing a collision between millennia. The prehistoric upright predates the later enclosure by centuries, yet the fort absorbed it rather than avoided it. Packing stones and a leaning slab hold the trapezoidal giant steady where Chatterton once found it shaking. The site becomes a nested timeline: ancient hands set the stone, later hands built a wall around it, and both still demand attention.

In rough pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Stone (H 1.5m; 1m x 0.4m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. 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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