Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Mullach Bhéal, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullach Bhéal
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.19128, -10.25514
- SMR number
- KE043-042----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Folach na Marbh: An oval cairn of stones located beside the old trackway which leads over the mountains from Glin North to Mullaghveal. It measures 6.5m x 6.2m x c. 1.5m in height and reputedly marks the spot where some person died (An Seabhac 1939, 232). It is the local custom for passers-by to add a stone to the cairn.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 229. 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.