TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

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
52.05847, -9.43039
SMR number
KE067-119011-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

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 oval cairn (3.8m NW-SE; 3m NE-SW; H 0.8m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Hut sites (KE067-119013-, KE067-119012-) lie c. 2m to the W and c. 10m to the E, respectively. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
See your own family's places on a living map