Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Srugreana, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Srugreana
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95437, -10.14280
- SMR number
- KE080-067----
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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 poorly preserved monument is located in a forestry plantation on the W slopes of a ridge. Obscured by overgrowth, it consists of a rectangular area, 4.3m NNE-SSW x 2.5m ESE-WNW, which is defined at its WNW side by five upright slabs and opposite by two roughly parallel lines of orthostats, 9.5m long and 1m apart, which extend beyond the monument to SW. The two lines of orthostats enclose a stony core and the slabs which form the outer line are of smaller dimensions, on average, than those of the inner row. These, together with the slabs which define the ESE side, range from .8m to 1.5m in height and from .5m to 1.15m in length. The thick slab at the NNE end of the ESE side features a quartz face.
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. 1475. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.