Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Clahane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clahane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.21470, -9.68905
- SMR number
- KE038-104----
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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
'This site is situated around 300m to the east of [KE038-103----].............and offers similarly panoramic views of the valleys on either side of the Slieve Mish. Both cairns are clearly visible from one another and stand on either side of a low saddle near the summit of Knockawaddra mountain. This cairn is larger and more impressive, measuring 21m N-S and 26m E-W, with a very domed profile. The cairn remains to a maximum height of 3.15m and is, again, almost completely covered in peat. Where the peat covering has been partly removed, due to collapse of the underlying cairn, on the southern side, the cairn can be seen to be constructed of similar large red sandstone slabs and boulders to LVS038 024. One of the small stone cairns, which serve as townland boundaries has been erected on the site.'
Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97.
Date of upload: 03 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.