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Boulder-burial

An Bhinn Bhán (Uíbh Ráthach), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Boulder-burial, An Bhinn Bhán (Uíbh Ráthach), County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
An Bhinn Bhán (Uíbh Ráthach)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.83022, -10.15624
SMR number
KE098-030001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (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

National Monument No. 380. This boulder-burial and standing stone are located in gently sloping pasture close to the W shores of Lough Currane. A second standing stone (KE098-034----) occurs c. 167m to SSW. The boulder-burial consists of a flat-topped slab supported on three low stones. The interior of the monument is infilled with field debris, and larger clearance stones abut it externally at E and W. The cover-stone is roughly subrectangular in plan, its longer axis lying ENE-WSW. Its maximum dimensions are 1.8m x 1.5m and it averages .3m thick. The support stones are generally flat-topped and have average dimensions of .7m x .5m and .3m high. In 1988 a single piece of burnt bone was found beneath the cover-stone (NMI 1988:190).

Located 13.4m ENE of the boulder-burial is a stout pillar (KE098-030002-) of regular elevation, marked 'Gallaun' on the OS maps. Its NE side displays a sharp inturn 1.45m up from its base, where it measures 1.05m x .8m; ENE-WSW. The stone stands 2.4m high and a number of packing stones are exposed at its base (Ó Nualláin 1978, 98).
Henry noted two small 'dolmens' to the W of the standing stone, where she also recorded the ruins of one or two huts and related field boundaries (1957, 132). No visible trace survives of this second possible boulder-burial, nor of the other features.

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. 378. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 28 July 2013

References

Henry, F. 1957 Early Monasteries, Beehive Huts, and Dry-Stone Houses in the Neighbourhood of Caherciveen and Waterville (Co. Kerry). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58C, 45-166.

Ó Nualláin, S. 1978 Boulder burials. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 78C, 75-114.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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