Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Ráth Ciaráin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ráth Ciaráin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns
- Coordinates
- 51.85236, -10.33609
- SMR number
- KE087-059----
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Shown on 4 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
Located in rolling pasture on a S spur of Kilkeaveragh mountain, this site occupies a commanding position overlooking St Finan's Bay to SW. Two 'Gallauns' are indicated at this location on both editions of the OS maps, but only one of them survives. This broad slab stands 2.15m high and measures 1.4m x .35m at base; E-W. A second stone formerly lay a short distance W of this. It was broken up and removed in the 1960s (local information).
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. 125. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.