Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Drom (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drom (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.03632, -9.32208
- SMR number
- KE068-116----
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 rough hill pasture, on the NW-facing slopes of Killeen Mountain. A large stone (L 6-8m; Wth 4m; H 1.8-2.5m) is perched on a rock outcrop. According to local information, it was once used as a mass-rock. It forms part of the enclosing element of an enclosure (KE068-028----) immediately to the SE.
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.