What is recorded here

Gallán is a standing stone in County Cork, Ireland. The irregular conglomerate boulder measures 1.5 metres high, 1.8 metres wide and 1.5 metres thick. It rests atop a small earthen platform on a NW-facing pasture slope. Cattle rubbing against the stone probably eroded the platform into shape.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Irregular conglomerate boulder (H 1.5m ; Wth 1.8m; T 1.5m) resting atop small earthen platform; platform probably result of erosion by cattle rubbing against stone. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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