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 stone predates the later earthwork by millennia, forcing the fort builders either to honour its presence or to ignore it entirely. A leaning slab now braces its base after Chatterton recorded it shaking in 1839, suggesting someone finally listened to the warning written in its wobble. The site preserves a rare conversation between ages, where a much older hand still reaches through a younger boundary.

In pasture, on the N side of a ridge to the E of the Cleady River. There are no visible remains of this stone which was indicated on the 1846 and 1895 OS 6-inch maps. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.