What is recorded here

Gallauns is a five-stone circle in County Cork where four remaining rocks still mark a small chamber while the missing southern stone vanished into time or human greed. The stones sit beside a field fence and face a stone row six metres away, suggesting people once measured distance, shadow or ritual around this narrow valley. cattle graze above them now, but the circle keeps its own quiet claim on the land.

In tract of reclaimed pasture, at head of short valley opening onto Foherish River valley to E. Circle partly incorporated in field fence. Circle incomplete; S side stone missing. Orthostats are 0.7m to 0.9m, L 0.2m to 0.4m T and 0.6m to 1.1m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is c. 2.2m. Stone row (6505) stands 6m to S. (O Nualláin 1984a, 35, no. 63) 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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