What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, proving that human ambition repeatedly stacks new meaning atop older stone rather than erasing what came before. A leaning slab now braces its base, perhaps added after Chatterton shook it loose in 1839, turning a prehistoric marker into a small record of persistence: measured, adjusted, remembered, and still standing where first set.

This stone is situated in rocky low-lying land just E of a small river. A prostrate, rectilinear block, it measures 1.75m x .45m x .4m. Its present W end tapers to a point. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 161. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

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