Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Dromroe (glanarought By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromroe (glanarought By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.83296, -9.62396
- SMR number
- KE101-010002-
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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 rough pasture, on the W side of the valley of the Dromoghty River. The boulder-burial stands in the centre of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-010001-) and consists of a flat-topped boulder (2.2m x 1.3m; T 0.65m) resting on three support-stones. The boulder is aligned on the main axis of the stone circle (NE-SW). The support-stones are flat-topped blocks exposed to a height of 0.15m. Small pad-stones on top of each support-stone serve to steady the boulder. A standing stone (KE101-010003-), also stands in the centre of the stone circle, 2m to the S of the boulder-burial. (Ó Nualláin 1978, 99, no. 41)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.