Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
An Gleann Mór (bar. Corca Dhuibhne, Tc Dún Chaoin), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Gleann Mór (bar. Corca Dhuibhne, Tc Dún Chaoin)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.14093, -10.44109
- SMR number
- KE042-127----
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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
Situated on the fairly steep NW slopes of Gleann Mór, this irregularly-shaped, grass-grown cairn of stones measures 11 to 12m long NNW-SSE and c. 4m wide. Though it is nowhere more than 1.5m high above the ground on either side, the cairn slopes downhill with the natural SE slope of the land, and its upper surface at the SE end lies c. 2.5m below that at the opposite end. Two possible upright slabs define the SE end.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 223. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 4 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.