What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, proving that human ambition often stacks rather than replaces. The prehistoric upright predates the later earthwork by millennia, forcing the fort builders either to honour the stone or to ignore it. Packing stones and a leaning slab now hold it steady after Chatterton found it shaky in 1839, turning a dying monument into a enduring landmark. The layering is the point: old faith, military pride and ordinary maintenance all pressed into one narrow strip of Kerry ground.

In pasture near top of N-facing slope. Rectangular stone (H 2.3m; 1m x 0.55m), long axis NE-SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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