Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Shrine
Cool East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91136, -10.35935
- SMR number
- KE078-009005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located near the centre of the site, this poorly preserved shrine survives as a low, rectangular stony area which is partially defined by upright slabs. The mound averages .4m high and includes some quartz pebbles. The Delaps noted four slotted stones in situ at its corners, and a fifth example just N of the ogham stone (1910, 191). Only the latter stone is now visible. It is a sandstone conglomerate with an off-centre broad notch, .18m long x .1m wide. The shrine appears, from the Delaps illustration of it, to have been of the corner-post variety.
The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 940. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 11 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.