What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43 metre tall stone that stood in the south-eastern corner of Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula. The prehistoric upright predates the later fortification by millennia, creating an odd layered boundary where ancient and modern claims overlap. A leaning slab and packing stones suggest people worked to keep it secure after Chatterton recorded it shaking in 1839. The stone may have been deliberately incorporated into the fort, or the fort may simply have closed around what already stood there.

Shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps as single standing stone. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. 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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