Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Dromagorteen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromagorteen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.83257, -9.51711
- SMR number
- KE102-109----
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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 grazing, on a SW-facing slope. A wedge-shaped chamber (L 2.7m; Wth 1.4m at the W end; Wth 1.15m at the E end) aligned E-W and closed by a backstone at E. The N side is composed of a single sidestone while the S side has two. At the E end, a roofstone (1.45m x 1.4m; T 0.2m) rests on the backstone, the N sidestone and the most easterly of the S sidestones. Another roofstone (2m x 1.55m; T 0.25m) has slipped to the S from its original position and overlaps the SW corner of the in situ roofstone and obscures some of the stones. Some stones are embedded in the ground immediately to the W of the tomb.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.