Gallan in Kilmacredock Lower, County Kildare

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

In open gently undulating pasture, c. 90m SE of a ringfort (KD006-006----). Not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, but described in 1972 as a limestone boulder (dims. L 1.3m; T 0.5m) lying in the field, but of which there was no visible trace in 1985 (SMR file). Fitzgerald (1903-5, 4) translates the townland name Carton as, ' "Baile an Cairthe" the town of the Pillar Stone' .

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD006-010

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