It holds the status of a recorded monument, which means the state recognises it as archaeologically or historically significant, yet the details that would explain why remain largely inaccessible to the casual enquirer.

Gallanes is a small townland in Cork, and like many such burial grounds scattered across rural Ireland, this one likely served a local community over a considerable stretch of time, possibly continuing in use across different periods of settlement, faith, and social change. Graveyards of this kind in the Irish countryside often occupy ground with much older associations, sometimes predating the formal parish structures introduced after the Norman period, and occasionally linked to early Christian foundations, a local saint, or a now-vanished church. Without specific recorded detail, however, those possibilities remain exactly that.