What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43-metre standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, set inside the later earthwork called Cromwell's Fort. The prehistoric upright predates that fortification by millennia, forcing the fort either to claim the stone or to ignore it. A leaning slab now braces its south-eastern face, perhaps added after Chatterton found it shaking in 1839. The layers collide: ancient marker, military name, pastoral slope, and a stone still refusing to fall.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. No visible surface trace. 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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