Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Na Leadhba Liatha, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Leadhba Liatha
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82411, -10.31996
- SMR number
- KE097-017001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (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
This boulder-burial and standing stone are located on the lower NNE slopes of Canuig mountain, at the head of the valley of the Ballinskelligs river. They are situated in pasture, on a fairly level terrace, and command a view of Ballinskelligs Bay. The wedge tomb at Coom (KE097-021----) is visible to ESE. The boulder-burial consists of a flat slab supported on four low stones. Two of these stones, those on the upslope side, are largely obscured by hillwashed material. The other two measure .48m x .38m x .15m and .52m x .47m x .13m. A pad-stone rests on the support stone at ESE, and measures .3m x .25m x .1m. Seven solution pits occur on the smooth upper surface of the cover-stone, whose longer axis lies NNE-SSW. The stone is raised approximately .15m above internal ground level, and its maximum dimensions are 1.97m x 1.57m. It averages .4m thick (Ó Nualláin 1978, 97).
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 379. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.