What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, proving that human ambition keeps returning to the same dangerous coordinates across centuries. The fort merely claimed a stone that already belonged to the land, creating a layered trap where prehistoric patience outlived military haste. A leaning slab now braces its base after Chatterton recorded the upright shaking in 1839, suggesting the site still resists forgetting its own age.

In pasture atop knoll. Roughly rectangular stone (H 1.5m; 1.4m x 0.55m), long axis NE-SW. 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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