What is recorded here

Gallán is a standing stone in County Cork, Ireland. It stands in pasture above the Owennashingaun River valley, its subrectangular form aligned north-south. The stone is eighty-three centimetres tall and measures one metre seventeen by eighty-four centimetres. It is the kind of place where a person might have stopped, breathed, and marked the valley before leaving.

In pasture with commanding view of Owennashingaun River valley. Subrectangular stone aligned N-S (H 0.83m; 1.17m x 0.84m). 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

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