What is recorded here

Dallán is a subrectangular standing stone on a Cork hilltop, measured at 1.48 metres tall and aligned northeast to southwest. It resisted mapping in 1842 and 1905, remaining hidden in tillage beside a townland boundary while cartographers drew elsewhere. The stone may have marked a limit people respected but never wrote down, watching fields and passing lives without asking to be remembered.

Not marked on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. In tillage, on hilltop, beside townland boundary. Stone (H 1.48m; 1.5m x 0.7m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Dallán, Ballygrady South is likely a prehistoric standing stone, possibly dating to the Bronze Age, given its form and location on a hilltop near a townland boundary. Its alignment and positioning may have had ritual or territorial significance, though specific folklore or use is not recorded.

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