What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in County Kerry, caught inside a much younger fort named for Cromwell. The stone reached three and a half metres, with packing stones around its base and a leaning slab on one face. Chatterton wrote in 1839 that it shook easily, yet it still stands, perhaps steadied after that warning. The fort may have been built around the older marker, or simply dropped into the same ground without asking permission. Either way, the place keeps two ages locked together, one towering and patient, the other hurried and proud.

In pasture on S slopes of Maughanaclea Hills. Irregular stone aligned ENE-WSW (H 1.7m; 1.3m x 0.5m). Myler (1998, 73) notes that it is pentagonal shaped and that 'the stone has markings on its edge.' 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: 29 January 2013

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the stone's irregular shape and edge markings may indicate ritual or symbolic use, though specific meaning or folklore is not recorded.

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