What is recorded here

Three gallans stood in sloping pasture above the Glannaharee River, the tallest reaching one metre before people forgot which field held them. Condon wrote they formed a fence near the bridge in 1916, yet even that certainty has blurred into loss. Perhaps they marked a boundary, a burial or a bargain between neighbours, but the river valley keeps its own counsel now. What remains is the shape of forgetting: stones so ordinary they vanished, and a bridge still carrying traffic past the place where wonder used to stand.

In sloping pasture, on N side of Glannaharee River valley. Condon (1916, 147, no. 130) records three 'gallans' (largest being 1m H) forming part of fence '...to right of Glanaharee Bridge when travelling West', also three other stones in adjoining field. Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. Local references to 'gallans' suggest possible early Christian or folk associations, though its original purpose remains unclear.

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