What is recorded here

Gallaun is a 3.43 metre standing stone in Glanleam, County Kerry, where packing stones and a leaning slab suggest people worked to keep it upright after it began to shake. It still belongs to the land, even if road work or council labour broke it in the 1940s and moved it aside. The fort, the field and the damaged stone may all be true at once: a place where human hands kept appearing to claim, adjust or destroy what older hands had set free.

In pasture, on a small plateau. There are no visible remains of this standing stone. According to the landowner, it was broken during work by Kerry County Council in the 1940s and subsequently placed at the side of the field. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.