Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballygamboon Upper,poulawaddra, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygamboon Upper,poulawaddra
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockawaddra 1125 ft. OD
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockawaddra, Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21569, -9.67881
- SMR number
- KE038-082----
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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
Cairn described by Connolly (1999, 43-4) as; 'A large recently discovered cairn on Knockawaddra Mountain (342m)'.
References
Connolly, M. 1999 Discovering the Neolithic in county Kerry: a passage tomb at Ballycarty. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.