What is recorded here

Galláin is a pair of standing stones on open moorland in County Cork. One stone lies fallen and the other still rises beside it, preserving a line that once crossed the land. They are not a complete circle or a grand chamber, but they are not nothing either. They are the remains of a place where people stood, looked, marked time or remembered an event now lost. The moor has taken much of the meaning, but the stones still hold the shape of human attention.

On level patch of moorland 190m ESE of summit of Knockraheen Hill. S stone is prostrate; it measures 3.65m by 1.15m and is 0.4m T. Second stone stands 2.5m to N; it is 1.1m L, 0.45m T and 3.4m H. Stones appear to have been aligned approximately NNE-SSW. (O Nualláin 1988, 242, no. 87) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this pair of stones may have functioned as a boundary marker, ritual site, or astronomical alignment. No specific folklore is recorded for the site.

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