Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Dromlusk, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromlusk
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87330, -9.78809
- SMR number
- KE091-103----
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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)
- 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 stone pair, not marked on the OS maps, is situated on a slight rise in a sizeable tract of bog on the NE slopes of Knocknagullion, overlooking the valley of the Blackwater river to E. Set 1.33m apart, the stones stand in a NNE-SSW line. The sides of the taller stone at SSW taper to an elongated point. It stands 2.1m high, and measures .47m x .38m at base. There is an ogham inscription on both edges of its ESE face. Macalister (1945, 215), reading up-up, read it as:
CATVVIRR MAQI LUGUVVEC
A flake has spalled off just above the fourth score of the final C, rendering it almost indecipherable. A grooved circle, .16m in diameter, is carved on the ESE face of the stone, 1.6m up from its base. Below it is a downward sloping groove, .2m long.
The second stone, a broad slab, rises to a height of 1.15m and measures 1.14m x .3m at base. Packing stones are visible around the bases of both stones.
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. 120. 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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.