What is recorded here

Gallauns is a squat, hunched standing stone in rough boggy pasture on the Iveragh Peninsula, one of a pair recorded on early maps whose second partner has vanished without explanation. Broad, low and barely half a metre deep, it crouches beside the Kealafreaghane river like a marker forgotten by the land itself. The Iveragh carries a dense scatter of these Bronze Age stones, yet this one keeps its own silence, holding the shape of a pairing no living person can now read.

In pasture atop hill. Depicted as single stone on OS 6-inch map (1842). Named "Gallauns" along with another stone one field away (CO141-062002-). 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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