Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Maulcallee, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maulcallee
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87322, -9.78565
- SMR number
- KE091-114008-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough hill pasture, on blanket bog, on the NE-facing slopes of Knocknagullion and within a network of relict field boundaries (KE091-114009-). A roughly circular cairn (3.5m NW-SE; 3m NE-SW; H 0.5m) of mainly large stones protrudes above the surface of the bog. There are indications of disturbance on the top of the cairn, which is partially obscured by gorse and heather. Traces of kerbing are visible along the E arc. There is another cairn (KE091-114007-) c. 8m to the NE
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.