Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Shronebeirne, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shronebeirne
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.43047, -9.36724
- SMR number
- KE011-042002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The stone, which is lying in a depression .8m deep, is contained within the bank of a ring-barrow (KE011-042001-) in the NW sector. It measures 1.6m high, .6m wide and .38m thick; however, only part of this stone is exposed and the area immediately surrounding it is waterlogged.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 15. 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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.