What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43-metre standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, set inside a later earthwork called Cromwell's Fort. The stone predates that fort by millennia, yet it still stands upright beside a leaning slab that may have been added after Chatterton wrote in 1839 that it shook easily. What looks like a military ruin is therefore also an old stone marker, layered under a newer name and a changed sky.

In pasture atop hillock. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have served a ritual or commemorative function. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with ancient heroes or supernatural beings.

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