Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Lohart, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lohart
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 51.83719, -9.70681
- SMR number
- KE101-007002-
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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)
- 1868 · 4. 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
In the garden of a house, to the N of the Kenmare-Castletownbere road and c. 9.5km SW of Kenmare. The monument stood in the centre of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-007001-). In 1841 it was described as a 'Cromlech…which extends East and West and inclines considerably to the East. The top flag is supported by three small stones not more than three feet [0.91m] in height; it measures six feet [1.82m] from East to West, five feet [1.52m] from North to South and is one foot, three inches [0.38m] in thickness' (OSL, 176). All that now remains of this possible boulder-burial is a flat slab (max. dim. 1.8m). (Ó Nualláin 1978, 98-9, no. 40).
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
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 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.