Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cloghermore, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghermore
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25634, -9.60333
- SMR number
- KE030-102----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
'A cairn [KE030-102----] is located on the summit of the reef and is very overgrown with bushes and briars. It is composed of limestone slabs and rocks and is 1.2m in height. The cairn measures 3.7m N-S and 4.6m E-W.'
Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008
Date of upload: 22 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.