What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, trapped inside a much younger fortification called Cromwell's Fort. The prehistoric upright predates the military earthwork by millennia, creating a strange layered collision where ancient belief and later human conflict share one small patch of ground. A leaning slab now braces the stone after it began to loosen, ensuring the old marker remains visible within the newer structure.

In rough grazing, on S-facing slope. Stone (H 1.5m; 0.95m x 0.6m) is rectangular in plan, long axis NW-SE. 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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