Editing Gallarus Oratory (section)

== Name ==
There exist several interpretations as to the origin and meaning of the placename ''Gallarus''.  Archaeologist [[Peter Harbison]] ventures the meaning to be something like 'the house or shelter for foreigner(s)' (''Gall Aras''), the said foreigners being possibly "these pilgrims that have come from outside the Peninsula."<ref name=":0">{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Harbison |title=Pilgrimage in Ireland: The Monuments and the People |publisher=Syracuse University Press |date=1995 |page=77 |quote=Various suggestions have been made to explain the Irish name, Gall Aras. If slightly ungrammatical, perhaps it is simplest to take it as meaning something like 'The House or Shelter for Foreigner(s')'; we might not go too far wrong in seeing the foreigners as being those pilgrims who had come from outside the Peninsula.}}</ref>

However, according to lexicologist [[Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha]] (aka ''An Seabhac''), the name does not refer to a foreign settlement but to a rocky headland (''Gall-iorrus'').<ref>T. J. Barrington, ''Discovering Kerry: Its History, Heritage and Topography'', Collins Press, 1999, 336 p. (originally published in 1976), p. 247: "The name does not, according to An Seabhach, refer to a foreign settlement but to a rocky headland}."</ref>