Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - radial-stone cairn
Gort An Tsléibhe, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort An Tsléibhe
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96305, -9.33108
- SMR number
- KE086-004003-
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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
In rough hill pasture, on a terrace on a N-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Loo River. A subcircular cairn (4.4m NW-SE; 3.9m NE-SW; H 0.4m) containing eight stones set radially along its circumference. The surface of the cairn is largely grass covered. There is a standing stone (KE086-004002-) c. 9m to the NW and a standing stone-pair (KE086-004001-) c. 12m to the NW.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.