What is recorded here
Gallán hides in ordinary Cork pasture, its standing stone forgotten beneath grass and hedge. What is left behind is not nothing. It is a invitation to remember that land keeps more than it shows.
In pasture. No visible surface trace. Number of large stones in hedge.
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
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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