Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Killowen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killowen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88706, -9.56663
- SMR number
- KE093-018001-
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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 level pasture, to the N of Kenmare Bay. A stone circle (KE093-018----) was indicated here on the 1846 OS 6-inch map, enclosing a central stone. The central stone appears to have had a cupmark on its upper surface as depicted in a sketch from the 1842 OS Memoranda, County Kerry, which is reproduced by Ó Nualláin (1984a, 63, fig. 12). Ó Nualláin (1975, 86) suggests that this central stone may have been the cover of a boulder-burial. There are no visible remains of this possible boulder-burial or of its enclosing stone circle.
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
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.