What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43 metre stone standing inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, where a much younger fort was built around an older upright. A leaning slab now braces its south-eastern face, perhaps added after Chatterton found it shaking in 1839. The pack stones at its base show that people kept returning to hold it steady, layering human care around a marker older than the fort itself.

In pasture, on N side of E-W field fence, on N-facing slope. Stone (H 1.5m; 0.9m x 0.7m) is rectangular in plan, long axis E-W. 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

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