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. Built millennia before the fort, the stone was either revered or ignored by later builders, creating a layered collision of time. A leaning slab now braces its base after Chatterton recorded it shaking in 1839, suggesting someone finally listened to the ground's complaint. The fort claims the site, but the stone outlives every name spoken around it.

In pasture overlooking Owngar River valley to W. Rectangular stone aligned NE-SW (H 1.85m; 1.05m x 0.74m). 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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