Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Glanleam, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanleam
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 51.93230, -10.32215
- SMR number
- KE079-055002-
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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
In SE quadrant of Cromwell's Fort (KE079-055001-). The standing stone (KE079-055002-) is of approximately rectangular elevation and stands 3.43m in maximum height. It is roughly trapezoidal in plan at base, measuring 1.43m x 0.34m; NE-SW. It averages 0.4m thick. A number of packing stones are visible around its base, and a slab, 1.5m long, leans against its SE face. At present the monument is upright, though Chatterton noted that it was then 'very easily shaken' (1839, 265), an observation which may explain the presence of the supporting slab.
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. 1454. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
References
Chatterton, Lady G. 1839 Rambles in the south of Ireland in the year 1838, 2 vols. London. Saunders and Otley.
O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. 1996 The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry. Cork University press.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.