Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Gurteen (glanarought By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteen (glanarought By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87221, -9.44525
- SMR number
- KE094-021002-
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, to the N of the Glashagorour River and overlooked by a hillock to the S. The monument is centrally placed within a multiple-stone circle (KE094-021001-) and consists of a rounded boulder (2.5m x 1.6m; min. T 0.6m). The tops of several support-stones are visible under the boulder but they are largely concealed in the boggy ground. The thin slab-like stone, noted by Ó Nualláin as standing beside the boulder (1978, 97), and which clearly formed part of it, has been repositioned on its top. (Ó Nualláin 1978, 97, no. 37)
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
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 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.