What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43 metre tall standing stone in County Kerry. It stands inside a later earthwork called Cromwell's Fort. The stone is much older than the fort. A leaner slab supports its south-eastern face. Chatterton wrote in 1839 that the stone shook easily. Someone may have added the slab after that warning. The fortonly remembers Cromwell. The stone remembers longer.

In pasture on S bank of River Bandon. Three stones shown on O.S. map (1842); one stone on O.S. map (1902). No visible surface trace. 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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