What is recorded here

Gallauns is a four poster alignment in County Cork, Ireland. Three stones still stand on a ridge above the Glashagloragh river, while a fourth lies broken beside a laneway. The tallest reaches three metres, casting a long shadow across the pasture at sunset. People may have placed them to mark a boundary, a burial or a gift to the land. Whatever they meant, the stones still point downward into the valley, waiting to be read.

In level pasture atop ridge overlooking valley of Glashagloragh river to S. Setting of three stones suggestive of four-poster trapezium arrangement. NW stone, the tallest, is 1.6m L, 0.75m T and 3m H. In line with this and 3.75m to SE is a stone 1.35m L:, 0.6m T and 2.15m H. Third stone stands 1.4m E of first and is 1m L, 0.9m T and 2.1m H. Some 18m E of this group, at the side of a laneway, is a prostrate stone 1.6m by 0.7m and 0.6m T. There is no evidence that this ever formed part of the group. Standing stone (CO121-033001-) 45m to W. (O Nualláin 1984b, no.4) 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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