What is recorded here
Gallán is a standing stone in County Cork, Ireland, now hidden beneath pasture with no visible surface trace. The land may have swallowed the stone or the stone may have withdrawn from human memory, but the boundary between earth and sky still leans at that exact spot.
In pasture. No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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