What is recorded here

Gallauns is a solitary standing stone in rough boggy pasture on the Iveragh Peninsula, erected during the Bronze Age as a boundary, memorial, waypoint or ritual marker. It stands 1.54 metres high, broad and squat rather than tall, beside the Kealafreaghane river. One survey recorded two stones at this place, but the second has vanished from later mapping, leaving the original pairing impossible to read. What remains is a hunched slab in open pasture, quiet enough to be forgotten and old enough to have watched the peninsula change around it.

In rolling pasture land. Upright stone, now split vertically in two (H 2.2m; 1.1m x 0.8m); long axis E-W. 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

Dated to the Bronze Age (c. 2500–800 BCE), the Gallauns, Reavouler standing stone may have functioned as a territorial marker or ceremonial monument. No specific folklore or detailed ritual use is recorded for this site.

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