Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Na Leadhba Liatha, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Leadhba Liatha
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 51.82418, -10.31995
- SMR number
- KE097-017002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A tall standing stone (KE097-017002-), marked 'Gallaun' on the second edition of the OS maps, is aligned N-S and occurs 4m to N of the boulder-burial. The stone widens marginally as it rises and then tapers inwards toward the top. It stands 2.5m high and measures 1.08m x .3m at base.
Lynch recorded an 'alignment' of stones adjacent to the boulder-burial at N, three of the stones protruding one foot (.3m) above the ground surface (1902b, 336). The central stone was a boulder of white quartz. Today the field is ploughed and only one prostrate stone, 1.35m long and located 1m NW of the boulder-burial, survives. It formerly stood upright (local information).
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
- Boulder-burialunder 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.