Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Killaha West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaha West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns
- Coordinates
- 51.85282, -9.61102
- SMR number
- KE093-046----
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, on a level area on the lower NW-facing slopes of Killaha Mountain overlooking Kenmare Bay to the N. Two stones were indicated close together here incorporated into a NW-SE field boundary on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Only one stone (dims. 1.4m x 0.8m; H 2.55m) now remains. It is rectangular in shape and plan and orientated NNE-SSW. It leans to the SE and packing-stones are visible at the SW corner. A standing stone (KE093-046001-) is c. 80m to the NW.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.