What is recorded here

Gallauns holds two stones on a bog ridge below Shehy Beg, one buried in peat and one still standing. The pair crosses a sharp mountain edge where visibility fails and identity blurs. They are not a complete monument or a finished claim. They are a trap for certainty, waiting for a human being to project certainty onto the void.

On bog-covered ridge c. 350m NW of summit (1284 ft.) of Shehy Beg mountain. One stone lies prostrate, partly concealed by peat. It measure at least 4.6m by 0.95m and is 0.5m T. Second stone, 3.6m to SW, is 0.95m L, 0.35m T and 2.2m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 246, no. 115) 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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