What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43 metre standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, trapped inside a much younger earthwork called Cromwell's Fort. The prehistoric upright predates the fort by millennia, creating a layered collision where ancient stone meets later human ambition. A leaning slab now braces its base, possibly added after Chatterton complained in 1839 that the stone shook easily. What looks like a military site is actually a negotiation between ages, with the older stone still refusing to be buried.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Rectangular stone (H 1.35m; 1m x 0.75m), leaning slightly to E, long axis E-W. 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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