Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Decorated stone
Bray, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88674, -10.41417
- SMR number
- KE087-023011-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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
Part of a group of five huts located about 80m ESE of KE087-022----. A carefully built drystone hut incorporating a series of twelve decorated stones. The motifs consist mainly of rough, equal-armed crosses, and display varying degrees of weathering.
Stone J: KE087-023011-;To the right of the previous example on the NW wall. An irregularly shaped stone, .34m x .18m, featuring three concentric circles.
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. 1137. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Decorated stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.