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
- 51.80771, -9.70422
- SMR number
- KE101-025006-
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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, c. 10m SW of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-025001-) and boulder-burial (KE101-025002-). This, the SW of a group of three boulder-burials, consists of a boulder (max. dim. 1.25m) partially obscured by peat. No support-stones are visible. The two other boulder-burials (KE101-025003-, KE101-025005-) stand 1.5m to the N and 1m to the E, respectively. (Twohig 1987, 115)
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
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.