Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Maulagowna, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maulagowna
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80862, -9.65592
- SMR number
- KE101-137----
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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 hill grazing, on bog on a SW-facing slope overlooking the valley of Lough Inchiquin. A roughly circular sod-covered mound of stones (diam. 4.5m; H 0.55m) with gorse bushes on its summit. The stones which comprise the cairn are of various shapes and sizes. A wedge tomb (KE101-069001) and an adjacent cist (KE101-069002-) lie c. 60m to NNW.
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.