Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Gortnagane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnagane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Coordinates
- 52.04054, -9.25595
- SMR number
- KE068-022002-
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
Near the centre of a cashel (KE068-022001-) named 'Cathair Craobh Dearg' and known locally as 'The City'. A stone (dims. 1.25m x 0.45m; H 0.95m) orientated NNW-SSE which was named 'Cromlech' on both the 1846 and 1894 OS 6-inch maps. According to de Valera and Ó Nuallaín (1982, 70), this stone is 'supposed to be a 'memorial' stone'. This is the same stone which was described in the 1940s as '3 feet 9 inches [1.12m] high, 4 feet 4 inches [1.13m] long and 1 foot 6 inches [0.45m] thick' and which was formerly higher and had traces of 'ogham writing' on it (Schools Manuscript for County Kerry).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.