What is recorded here

Gallaun stood in a western pasture as a greyish stone, nearly six feet tall and broad enough to block a narrow path. Condon measured it in 1916, but that clear record now points to an empty slope because the stone has been removed. What took it, whether men with carts or time itself, has gone quiet, leaving only the memory of its shape and the absence where it marked the land.

In pasture, on WNW-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. Condon (1916, 68, no. 25) noted stone, 'greyish in colour' and measuring '5 feet 8 inches in height, 2 feet 5 inches in breadth, 2 feet 1 inch in thickness'. 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

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have served a ceremonial or territorial function. No specific folklore or inscriptions are recorded for the site.

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