Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Garrydine, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrydine
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns
- Coordinates
- 51.98478, -10.11698
- SMR number
- KE070-028----
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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
This pair of standing stones is situated towards the N edge of a sizable tract of blanket bog, S of Knocknadobar mountain. The stones are located in a small peat-cutting, 8.5m x 5m, which averages .8m deep. They stand 3.3m apart in a NE-SW line. The SW stone is 1.8m high and measures .98m x .28m at base; it inclines slightly to SE.
The second stone leans very strongly to S, measuring 1.85m x .95m x at least .4m thick (Ó Nualláin 1988, 250). In the early decades of this century a number of features, described as 'stone graves', were uncovered beside the monument during peat-cutting (local information). No visible traces of these survive.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 121. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.