What is recorded here

Gallauns holds three stones on a Kerry ridge, the tallest bearing an ogham inscription that still resists complete reading. They stand among pasture and nearby stone circles, marking a landscape where human hands shaped stone long before modern memory. The erased parts of the inscription suggest a name or claim lost to weather, leaving the stones as witnesses rather than explainers.

In pasture, on an E-W ridge c. 750m S of the Roughty River. The group consists of three standing stones in an E-W alignment. The westernmost stone (H 1.3m; 1.4m x 0.65m) is roughly rectangular in plan and shape and is orientated NE-SW. The middle stone (H 2.45m; 1.6m x 0.5m) which bears an ogham inscription (see KE093-026002-), stands 5m to the E and is orientated E-W. It is roughly rectangular in plan and shape with an irregularly tapering top. The ogham inscription, parts of which are very eroded, occurs along its SE edge beginning c. 0.4m and extending to c. 1.65m above ground level. Macalister (1902, 121, no. 115) read the inscription as: LUGUN ILOCI DMAQ I ALLOTO. The easternmost stone (H 1.2m; 0.8m x 0.65m), which is 1.5m from the middle stone, is roughly rectangular in plan and shape and is orientated N-S. There is a five-stone circle (KE093-087----) c. 220m to the SSW, a stone row (KE093-088----) c. 300m to the SE and a radial-cairn (KE093-025002-) c. 400m to the SW. (Ó Nualláin 1984b, 75; Ruggles 1999, 193, CKR44a; 226, List 5, note 2) 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

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