What is recorded here

Gallaun is a fallen standing stone in West Cork pasture, its four-point-seven-metre rectangular body lying across grass with packing stones still clustered at the eastern end. The socket remains visible beside the rock, suggesting the stone once rose to mark a line or watch the western sea. People may have stood there in storm or celebration, reading the sky through a gap the stone helped define.

In pasture with commanding views to SW and W. Fallen rectangular stone (L 4.7m; 1.4m x 0.35m) with one packing stone resting on its upper surface at E end. Socket (D 0.6m) with more packing stones also noted at E end. Possibly aligned NW-SE. 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

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ceremonial or territorial significance. The socket and packing stones suggest it was originally upright, possibly part of a ritual landscape or marker for a burial or passage tomb.

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