Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Dromteewakeen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromteewakeen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96584, -9.80104
- SMR number
- KE082-007002-
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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
The possible boulder-burial was located 24m to the NE of the stone row (KE082-007001-). Before destruction it comprised a large boulder, 1.6m x 1.35m, which rested above four or more small stones (Ó Nualláin 1988, 238-9, Fig. 14). In 1989 an area of 18 sq. m, centering on the original location of the possible boulder burial was excavated (Sheehan 1990, 30). There were no finds and no features survived to identify the nature of the site. (O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 50-51, no. 108).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 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.