Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Lohart, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lohart
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 51.83719, -9.70681
- SMR number
- KE101-007001-
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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 the garden of a house, to the N of the Kenmare-Castletownbere road and c. 9.5km SW of Kenmare. In 1841 this stone circle was described as 'a circle of standing stones with a small cromlech [KE101-007002-] in the centre. The circle is thirty-five feet, six inches [10.82m] in diameter and composed of twelve standing stones, each being from four feet to five feet ten inches [1.21m-1.77m] in height, three feet [0.91m] wide and two feet [0.6m] thick' (OSL, 176). According to Ó Nualláin (1984a, 28, no. 44), the stone circle was in a ruinous condition for many years and was reconstructed c. 1964 and most likely now bears little resemblance to its original form. It now consists of a U-shaped arrangement of loosely set upright stones with a possible boulder-burial (KE101-007002-) in the centre.
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
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.