What is recorded here

Gallán is a quartzite standing stone in County Cork, Ireland. It stands one metre tall in a private garden, its rectangular body tilted slightly along an east-west line. The stone has watched the house and surrounding fields for centuries, marking a boundary or memory no longer spoken aloud.

In garden of house. Quartzite stone (H 1.1m; 1.21m x 0.7m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis ENE-WSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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