Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Glansillagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glansillagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.56344, -9.42539
- SMR number
- KE003-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This stone is situated in low-lying pastureland. To the SW of this site lies a ringfort (184). The stone is irregularly shaped, rising from a rectangular base to a peak and standing 1.6m high, 1.25m wide and .3m thick. A number of packing stones are visible around the base.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 13. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.