Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - radial-stone cairn
Dromatouk, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromatouk
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 51.88151, -9.52764
- SMR number
- KE093-025002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pasture, in an area of undulating moorland c. 1km S of the Roughty River. Indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as an arc of stones (C c. 30m) SSE-N, abutting a NW-SE field boundary. Nine radially set stones (max. L 0.6m; H c. 0.5m) mark the edge of a cairn (diam. 7m; H 1m). The surface of the cairn is largely exposed and consists of stones up to 1.5m in maximum dimensions. Four stones towards the middle of the cairn suggest the possibility of an inner ring. An accompanying standing stone (KE093-025003-) is c. 3m to the N. A five-stone circle (KE093-087----) lies c. 200m to the NNE. (Ó Nualláin 1984b, 77-8)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.