What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, a prehistoric upright later swallowed by a man-made enclosure. A leaning slab now braces its base, perhaps added after Chatterton found it shaking in 1839, proving the stone resisted both time and forgetting. The fort did not create the stone's age; it merely claimed the space where the stone already stood.

Shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps as single standing stone and marked 'Dallaun' and 'Gallaun' respectively. No shown on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Removed; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Bronze Age, the stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. Its removal and lack of surviving carvings prevent definitive interpretation of its original use or symbolic meaning.

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