What is recorded here

Gallán is a 1.9m standing stone in County Cork pasture, its narrow rectangular body tilted across a south-east facing slope. It has watched grass grow and livestock pass for centuries, steady while the land around it changed. People may have marked time, claimed territory or simply remembered someone there. The stone still stands, holding that forgotten purpose without complaint.

In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Stone (H 1.9m; 1.08m x 0.23m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. 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

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. The name "Gallán" may derive from a early Christian saint, but the stone itself is probably prehistoric in origin.

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