What is recorded here

Cromwell's Fort in Glanleam, County Kerry, contains a much older gallaun that predates the surrounding earthwork by millennia. The tall stone still stands beside a supporting slab, suggesting people once intervened to keep it upright after it began to loosen. Its placement inside a later military structure creates a layered collision between ages, where human hands kept a prehistoric marker visible through changing uses of the land.

Close to the centre of a ring-barrow (KE060-004001-). An upright stone (dims. 1.6m x 0.74m; H 2.07m) roughly rectangular in plan and elevation and orientated NE-SW. The stone leans to the NE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Probably dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, given its association with a ring-barrow, suggesting a funerary or ritual context. Such stones may have marked burial sites or had ceremonial significance in prehistoric communities.

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