Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Gurteen (glanarought By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteen (glanarought By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 51.87221, -9.44525
- SMR number
- KE094-021001-
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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, to the N of the Glashagorour River and overlooked by a hillock to the S. This stone circle (diam. 10.5m) consists of eleven stones (L 0.6-2.8m; T 0.3-0.6m; H 0.7-1.5m), one of which is prostrate. Two further stones (H 1m and 0.75m), stand radially to the circumference of the circle and form a short entrance passage at NE. The axial stone is a fine regular slab with an internal bevel on its top surface and unusually, it is the largest stone of the circle. A boulder-burial (KE094-021002-) occupies the centre of the interior. A burnt spread (KE094-059----) lies c. 130m to the NNW and a cairn (KE094-058001-) is c. 350m to the W. (Ó Nualláin 1984a, 27, no. 43)
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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
References
Ó Nualláin, S. 1984a A survey of stone circles in Cork and Kerry. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 84C, 1-77.
Nearby in the register
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.