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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Baile Uí Uaithnín, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Baile Uí Uaithnín, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Baile Uí Uaithnín
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Giants Grave
Coordinates
52.20592, -10.15464
SMR number
KE035-073001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)

Cuppage (1986, 20-6, no. 25 (a)) records that 'three of the stones of the gallery bear rock art designs.' These designs include a single cup-and-circle, twelve shallow cup-marks, two possible cup-marks and a penannular circle. These are shown in Cuppage (ibid., fig. 13b). The 'Gallaun' indicated on the 1st and 2nd ed. OS 6-inch maps to the SW of this wedge tomb is probably the one that is noted by Cuppage (ibid.) as a 'single outer-wall stone [which] stands at the W end of the S side [of the wedge tomb]'; this is also noted by O'Nuallain (1982, 55, fig. 20).

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)

Date of upload: 6 January 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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