What is recorded here

Mangertonbeg Mountain still casts its shadow across the pasture where Gallaun stands, a two-metre oblong stone leaning slightly southeast as if listening to the wind. Two smaller uprights sit nearby, possibly ancient markers or merely field debris, leaving the true boundary of the site blurred by time. The main stone tapers toward the top like a frozen gesture, inviting wonder about whether it guided herds, marked a boundary, or simply watched the valley long before humans gave it a name.

In level pasture, on the lower S-facing slope of Mangertonbeg Mountain. This standing stone (1.4m x 0.6m; H 2m) is oblong in plan and subrectangular in section and is orientated NE-SW. It tapers towards the top and leans slightly to the SE. There are two smaller upright stones, with some field-clearance stones piled up around their bases, to the N and NW. The N stone (0.95m x 0.4m; H 0.85m), which is 1.4m N of the standing stone, is orientated NE-SW and is rectangular in plan. The NW stone (0.75m x 0.3m; H 0.65m), which is 0.7m to the NW of the NE stone, is orientated E-W and is rectangular in plan. It is not possible to determine whether these two smaller stones are part of the field-clearance debris. 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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