Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stepping stones
Inishfoyle, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishfoyle
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stepping Stones
- Coordinates
- 51.79524, -9.59731
- SMR number
- KE102-127----
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
Nine flat-topped, roughly rectangular stones (max. dims. L 1.15m; Wth 0.45m; H 0.2m above water level) traversing the Baurearagh River at a point where it is slow-flowing and c. 10m wide. The long axes of the stones is W-E, aligned with the flow of the river. They allow access to the mass-rock/bullaun stone (KE110-004---) c. 150m to the SW.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Tunnelunder 1 mi
- Tunnelunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.