Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballahacommane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballahacommane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05870, -9.43023
- SMR number
- KE067-119008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a heavily overgrown area of rough pasture, on the S-facing slopes of a ridge, with views S to Mangerton Mountain. A roughly circular cairn (diam. 1.9m; H 0.5m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Another cairn (KE067-119004-) is c. 7m to the NE, another (KE067-119010-) is c. 8m to the NW and another (KE067-119009-) is c. 5m to the S. (O'Donnell 2001; O'Donnell 2003)
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.