Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Dromteewakeen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromteewakeen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns
- Coordinates
- 51.96564, -9.80118
- SMR number
- KE082-007001-
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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)
- 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 is situated in reclaimed bogland on the floor of the Bridia valley, 75m S of the Caragh river. The location is encircled by high mountains, except where the valley opens to W. Ó Nualláin recorded a possible boulder-burial NE of the site (1988, 239), but the land here was deep-ploughed in 1989 and no trace of this feature survives.
The stone row consists of three orthostats, the smallest of which was levelled in 1989. The other two stand in a ENE-WSW line, 2.25m apart. The taller stone, at ENE, is of trapezoidal plan at base and of somewhat irregular elevation; it stands 2.27m high and has maximum dimensions of .87m x .33m at base. The second stone tapers in elevation towards a flat top, rising to a height of 1.88m; it measures .57 x .46m at base. The third component of the row was a low stone which stood c. 1.2m further to WSW; it measured .4m high and .58m x .3m at base. Analysing the significance of this monument's orientation, Lynch concluded that it was aligned on the rising sun at the summer solstice (1981b, 26).
The possible boulder-burial was located 24m to the NE of the stone row. Before destruction it comprised a large boulder, 1.6m x 1.35m, which rested above four or more small stones (Ó Nuallain 1988, 238-9, Fig. 14).
The stone row was disturbed during land reclamation operations in 1989 and, as a result, was excavated (Sheehan 1990a, 30). The socket of the felled orthostat and the area around the two remaining uprights were investigated. A shallow pit and a number of stake-holes were discovered close to the ENE orthostat, but these may not be contemporary with the monument. The location of the possible boulder-burial was also excavated, but no finds or features were noted.
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. 108. 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
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.