Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Barrow, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrow
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KE028-094----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of eight cairns in the townland of Barrow recorded in the Minute Book of County Kerry Field Club 6 December 1941 (Vol. 1, 242) has not been identified. The Kerry Field Club recorded that they found 'no less than eight burial mounds of stone; some very large. One that they measured was 20 ft [6m] x 20 ft [6m] by 5 ft [1.5m] above the surrounding ground level'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 June 2022
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