What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, where a shallow cup-mark still ghosts its eastern face. It predates the later fort by millennia, forcing humans to build around an old claim rather than erase it. The stone does not ask permission; it waits inside the new structure like a forgotten bone in the chest of the land.

Tall, flat-topped (H 2.65m; 0.80m x 0.23m); long axis N-S. Shallow cup-mark on E face c. 1.55m from top of stone. 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

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. The presence of a cup-mark suggests possible ceremonial use, though specific folklore or function remains unrecorded.

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