Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Derreenafoyle, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreenafoyle
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 51.85788, -9.75064
- SMR number
- KE092-029----
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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
Two stones, one prostrate, are located on a prominent rise in a marshy area about 370m W of the Blackwater river. Triangular in basal section, the upright stone stands 2.45m high and tapers slightly towards a flat top. It measures .8m x .47m at base; NNE-SSW. The prostrate slab lies in dense overgrowth 1.5m to N, and measures 2.5m long and 1.35m wide (Ó Nualláin 1988,250).
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. 119. 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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.