What is recorded here

Gallán is a rough triangular standing stone in Kerry pasture, tall enough to cast a shadow across the grass but small enough for a person to walk around in seconds. It still points north and south like a marker for a route nobody remembers. The six faded marks on its west side may be oghamic, may be tool scars, may be nothing at all. That uncertainty is the interesting part: a stone can survive the loss of every language that named it.

In pasture, on a level area, to the N of the Killarney-Killorglin road. The stone (dims. 2.2m x 1.1m; H 2.75m) is irregular in plan and roughly triangular in shape and orientated N-S. The 'six small marks on the SW side of the stone' which were recorded by Capt. D. B. O'Connell in the 1930s and which he thought 'may be oghamic' (SMR file) were not noted during the inspection. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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