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Stone circle - multiple-stone

Doughill, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle - multiple-stone, Doughill, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Doughill
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Stone Circle
Coordinates
51.87038, -9.50694
SMR number
KE093-042----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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

In level pasture, c. 60m S of a stream at the foot of the W slope of Knockbrack. There are no visible remains of this stone circle. Windele (RIA MS 12.C.11, 293) described a circle 'of sixteen stones none of them higher than 4 feet [1.21m] and some of them four feet [1.21m] broad. The diameter is 13 paces or about 30 feet [9.1m]. It is open at the NW either as originally or by the removal of a stone…'. His accompanying sketch shows a possible axial stone. Ó Nualláin (1984a, 27, no. 42) noted that the circle was clearly of the Cork-Kerry type and 'probably consisted of seventeen orthostats enclosing an area about 9m in diameter'.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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