What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in County Kerry, embedded inside a later earthwork called Cromwell's Fort. The ancient upright predates the fort by millennia, forcing humans to build around or ignore a marker already touching the sky. Its packed base and leaning slab suggest it once shook, yet it still stands, turning a military enclosure into a chamber where older time keeps watching.

Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Stone (H 1.4m; 1.2m x 0.8m) 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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