What is recorded here

Gallaun stands 3.43 metres tall inside Cromwell's Fort on the Iveragh Peninsula, forcing a collision between millennia. The prehistoric upright predates the later enclosure by thousands of years, yet the fort swallowed it rather than avoided it. A leaning slab now braces its base, possibly added after Chatterton found it shaking in 1839. The stone survived human ambition, regional war and time itself simply by refusing to fall.

In pasture on N-facing slope. 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

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