What is recorded here

Gallán is a fallen standing stone in County Cork, Ireland. It lies beside a socket packed with large stones on a south-facing pasture slope. The stone measures 2.2 metres long and 1.2 by 0.3 metres across. It may have marked a boundary, a meeting place or a memory before it fell.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Stone, now fallen (L 2.2m; 1.2m x 0.3m), is subrectangular in plan, lying beside socket containing quite large packing stones. 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 Early Christian or medieval period, the stone may be associated with a local saint or religious figure, given the name "Gallán," which is of Irish origin and often linked to early monastic sites. The presence of a socket and packing stones suggests it may have originally stood as a cross slab or memorial.

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