Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Uragh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Uragh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80778, -9.70412
- SMR number
- KE101-025002-
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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 a terrace of a N-facing slope overlooking Lough Inchiquin. This boulder-burial stands in the centre of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-025001-) and consists of a flat-topped boulder (1.65m x 1.2m; T 0.5m) supported on four stones, three of which are small. The boulder is orientated NE-SW and some small cupmarks and linear incised markings, V-shaped in section, were noted on it. A fulacht fia (KE101-025004-), abuts the axial stone of the stone circle and a group of three boulder-burials (KE101-025003-, KE101-025005-, KE101-025006-) stand c. 8-10m SW. (Twohig 1987, 114-15)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.