Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Esk East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Esk East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79599, -9.53369
- SMR number
- KE102-071----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 boggy pasture, on a terrace high up on the NE-facing slopes of Barraboy Mountain. This tomb, which protrudes above the surface of the bog, consists of a wedge-shaped chamber (L 2m; Wth 1.5m at the W end), aligned ENE-WSW. Three sidestones at S and a single long sidestone at N support two overlapping roofstones. A single portal stone partially closes the WSW end and a backstone is visible at ENE. A line of low kerbstones (H 0.3m) protrudes from the bog to the N, E and S, that on the N side leaning outwards. Another wedge tomb (KE102-072----) lies c. 500m to the E.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.