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Megalithic structure

Aghatubrid, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Aghatubrid, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Aghatubrid
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.89080, -10.21648
SMR number
KE088-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 located in upland pasture on the crest of a ridge that extends SW from Aghatubrid mountain. It commands a wide outlook to Valencia Harbour at NW and Ballinskelligs Bay at S. The early ecclesiastical site of Kilpeacan (KE088-015001-) lies about 200m to ENE. The site consists of a roughly rectangular arrangement of upright slabs, open at W, measuring approximately 3.7m ENE-WSW x 2m NNW-SSE. Two uprights occur 1.85m E of this arrangement.
The N side of the monument is composed of three uprights, ranging from .3m to 1m high. A possible packing stone occurs outside the upright at E, and measures .14m high. An upright, .25m high x .6m wide, and a large recumbent slab, now partly overgrown by sod, 2.2m x 1.05m x .2m, delineates its S side. Two uprights occur close to the E end of the monument, one set inside the line of the other. The upright at N is disposed at right angles to the E end of the middle stone at the N side, and measures .97m high and .66m x .18m at base. The upright at S measures .73m x 1.49m x .2m thick. Outside the monument to E, the two uprights, set one behind the other, maintain a roughly similar alignment to its S side. They average .3m high and .75m wide x .11m thick. The site has been interpreted as the remains of a megalithic tomb by Henry (1957, 84).

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. 1469. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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