Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Gortnakilla, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnakilla
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96978, -9.31842
- SMR number
- KE076-070----
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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
In rough heather and gorse covered grazing on a N-S bog-covered ridge with views over the surrounding hills and valleys. An upright stone slab (H 1.15m; 1.7m x 0.37m), roughly rectangular in plan and elevation, and orientated NE-SW.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.