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Stone row

Curragh More, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone row, Curragh More, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Curragh More
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.97810, -9.74541
SMR number
KE073-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This site, not marked on the OS maps, is located on the saddle ridge which extends N from Broaghnabinna mountain to Curragh More lake and separates the Black and Bridia valleys. The ridge bears a mantle of peat, c .45m deep in the vicinity of the monument. The row, 2.7m long, is comprised of three stones and is orientated ESE-WNW. The tallest stone, at E, stands 1.95m high and measures .66m x .55m at base where a number of packing stones are exposed. Standing .8m to W, the central and lowest stone is .72m high and measures .32m x .25m at base. The long axis of the third stone, .44m to W, is aligned N-S; it stands .9m high and is .35m x .26m at base (Ó Nuallain 1988, 238).

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. 100. 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

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

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