What is recorded here

Gallaun is a tall standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, where one account claims it was removed to make hay cutting easier while another describes it still upright inside a later fort. That contradiction is the heart of the place: a stone large enough to mark time, yet easy for people to forget, move or build around. It may have shaken, been braced, vanished from memory or resisted every attempt to erase it.

In pasture on S-facing slope. No visible surface trace. Myler (1998, 41) states that this 'was a hay field and it is believed the stone was removed to make cutting easier. There is no local memory of the stone itself. 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: 24 January 2013

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