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 upon old stone rather than erasing what came before. The fort carries war and conquest, while the gallaun carries patience and patience alone. Its base still holds packing stones and a leaning slab, evidence that people kept returning to steady what time had loosened. The layering is the point: each era believed it was the first to notice the place, and each era was wrong.

In pasture, on E-facing slope with commanding view over Owenboy river valley and estuary. Stone removed c. 1965. (O'Leary 1919, 35). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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