Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
An Com (bar. Uíbh Ráthach), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Com (bar. Uíbh Ráthach)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82548, -10.31278
- SMR number
- KE097-022----
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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
Not marked on the OS maps, this standing stone is situated in rough pasture that overlooks low-lying land towards Ballinskelligs Bay at SE. It is a low orthostat, weathered and fissured. It stands 1.06m high and measures .62m wide and .16m thick at base; NNW-SSE. One packing stone is visible on its NW side.
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. 153. 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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.