What is recorded here

Three metres of ancient stone still stands inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, forcing later soldiers or settlers to build around a marker already touching the sky. Packing stones and a leaning slab hold it upright today after Chatterton found it shaking in 1839, turning a nearly lost monument into a study in patient repair. The fort may have claimed the site for its own history, but the gallaun arrived first and remains the sharper witness.

In level pasture, with views SW to Mangerton Mountain. The stone (dims. 1.05m x 0.9m; H 1.05m) is irregular in plan and elevation and orientated N-S. A rath (KE067-048----) is c. 200m to the SW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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