What is recorded here

Killowen holds one leftover gallán from a pair that stood together for millennia. The missing companion left behind only absence and a scattered pile of stones, while the survivor still leans slightly east in the pasture. It is not grand, but it is still watching the field and remembering the shape of the place before people stopped noticing it.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Rectangular sandstone block (H 0.7m; 0.86m x 0.29m), long axis ENE-WSW. Second stone (CO118-008001-) lies 12.1m distant to NNW. 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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