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 wears a colonial label. A leaning slab now braces its base, perhaps added after Chatterton recorded in 1839 that the stone shook easily. What looks like a military ruin is actually a new jacket forced around an old bone, the fort built over the stone rather than the stone placed in the fort.

In pasture on NNW-facing slope. 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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