What is recorded here
Gallán is a trapezoidal standing stone in County Cork, Ireland. It stands one and a half metres tall on a south-east facing pasture slope, aligned north-west to south-east. The stone predates the 1842 Ordnance Survey map, surviving human memory and measurement alike.
Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Stone (H 1.5m; 1.4m x 0.7m) is trapezoidal in plan, long axis NW-SE.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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