What is recorded here

Gallauns is a six-stone row in County Cork, Ireland, where two giants lie broken across reclaimed pasture while four others still point toward the Foherish River valley. The largest fallen stone hides a probable socket at its edge, suggesting the row once stood complete before time or humanity knocked it flat. People may have walked this line to mark a boundary, honour a dead person or watch the sun travel from east to west. Whatever they intended, the stones still keep that shape, holding a lost purpose in grass and rain.

In reclaimed pasture, on upper slopes of Foherish River valley. Row of six stones, aligned E-W and 9.8m in overall length; two stones are prostrate.NE stone is 0.7m L, 0.4m T and 1.3m H. Next stone, 0.9m to SW, is 0.65m L,0.5m T and 1.3m H. Third stone, 1m to SW, is fallen; it measures 2.4m by0.7m and is 0.2m T. Fourth and tallest erect stone, 0.9m further to SW, is0.9m L, 0.4m T and 2.2m H. Fifth stone, 1m to SW, is 0.9m L, 0.5m T and 1mH. SW stone is prostrate; it probably would have been tallest. It measures3.1m by 0.85m and is 0.45m T; probable socket visible at SE corner.Five-stone circle (6454), stone row (6505) and standing stones (6573) stand600m to N. (O Nualláin 1988, 23, no. 17) 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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