What is recorded here

Galláin is a three-stone row in West Cork pasture, aligned east to west across a gentle south-facing slope. The nearest stone leans south like a person bending to listen, while the other two stand taller and farther apart. Two more stone pairs wait fifty and one hundred metres away, suggesting a wider arrangement now reduced to fragments. People may have walked this line to mark season, boundary or memory, but the stones no longer explain themselves.

In level pasture on gentle S-facing slope. Row of three stones, aligned ENE-WSW, 6.4m in overall length. NE stone leans markedly to S; it is 0.65m L, 0.15m T and, when erect, would have stood 1.3m H. Next stone, 2.8m to SW, is 0.5m L, 0.6m T and 1.6m H. SW stone, 1.3m from last, is 1.2m L, 0.65m T and 1.6m H. Pair of standing stones (CO118-054001-) 50m to NNW and second pair (CO118-054003-) 100m to SSE. (Ó Nualláin 1988, 236, no. 48; Roberts 1988, Ch. 5, no. 10). 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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