Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Gortlahard (glanarought By., Cappagh Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortlahard (glanarought By., Cappagh Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85560, -9.48493
- SMR number
- KE093-097004-
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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 with occasional boulders, on a S-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Sheen River to the SW and W. An oval cairn (2.5m N-S; 1.8m E-W; H 0.4m), the basal stones of which are protruding from peat, with a possible revetment SE-W. A cairn (KE093-097003-) lies c. 40m to the NNW and another cairn (KE093-097005-) is c. 30m to the E. A relict field boundary (KE093-097001-) is in the immediate vicinity.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.