Anonymous 1846, p. 228: "Gallerus or Gollerus, a village, and a cluster of curious antiquities, near the head of Smerwick Harbour, parish of Kilmelehedor, barony of Corkaguiney, County Kerry, Munster. The antiquities are a curious hermitage, a tower .. and a castle which belonged to the Fitzgeralds, Knights of Kerry ..."
