Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Baile An Bhaoithín, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Bhaoithín
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.16025, -10.40226
- SMR number
- KE042-097----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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
Located c. 250m to W and uphill of KE042-101----, this standing stone collapsed in 1980 and has slipped downhill, through a gap in the wall, into the field adjacent to that in which it formerly stood. It measures at least 4.69m in length and c. 1.54m in width tapering to a rounded top; a pronounced shoulder on the under-surface reduces its thickness from .77m to .5m at top. At least 1.88m of the stone is unweathered indicating an exposed height of 2.81m when upright; this agrees well with the height of 3.04m given in the OSNB (Marhin, 16). A low upright at the field wall, .6m high and 1m long, may have acted as a support stone.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 84. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.