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. The fort carries war and conquest, while the gallaun carries patience, waiting out centuries of forgotten hands and changed skies. A leaning slab now braces its base, perhaps added after Chatterton shook it in 1839, turning a temporary visit into a small act of preservation. The site becomes a lesson in attention: what seems ordinary may simply be old enough to stop announcing itself.

In pasture, on level break in S-facing slope. Stone (H 1.37; 0.58m x 0.47m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. 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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