What is recorded here
Gallan is a vanished standing stone buried beneath West Cork pasture, remembered only in written archives while the grass hides its shape. The site sits on a west-facing slope where rain and time have erased every visible edge. What remains is a ghost in the ground, waiting for someone to dig or imagine the stone that once pierced the sky.
In pasture on WSW-facing slope. No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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