What is recorded here

Gallan is a two-metre standing stone in County Cork, leaning beside a roadside field after moving from a spot a hundred metres south-east. It has survived carts, surveyors and time, still marking the edge of human memory. People may have passed it for centuries, reading its tilt as patience rather than decay.

Stone (H 2m; 1.7m x 0.4m) in field next to roadside boundary. Once stood c. 100m to SSE (1842 OS 6-inch map); moved to present location; leaning. (Walsh 1985, 75, 103, no. 25) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Bronze Age, the stone may have functioned as a boundary marker or ritual monument. Local tradition sometimes associates such stones with early Christian figures, though no specific folklore is recorded for this site.

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