What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in County Kerry that predates the surrounding Cromwellian fort by millennia. The later structure either embraced the ancient marker or ignored it, creating a layered collision of time where human ambition kept returning to the same strange spot.

In pasture on S-facing slope. Trapezoidal stone (H 4m; 2.46m x 0.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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