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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Com An Tsleabhcháin, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Com An Tsleabhcháin, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Com An Tsleabhcháin
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Cromlech
Coordinates
51.77545, -10.16046
SMR number
KE106-037----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Cromlech: Located on a level platform on the upper slopes of the spur of Farraniaragh mountain, this small tomb is largely collapsed. The S side of its gallery is represented by two side-stones, the upper edges of which slope downwards to E. Two small buttress or packing stones occur outside these. A single side-stone at N lies prostrate. The roof-stone, now collapsed, measures 2.7m long (de Valera and Ó Nuallain 1982, 67).
Windele, in 1848, referred to this site as 'Board'een' (Bord Eoghain Fhinn) or 'Fingal's Table' (RIA MS 12 C 11). Alternative names applied to it are 'The Table' and Carraig Shíomais, and it is unclear whether the names Cloch an Arruig and Clochán an Fhiolair are connected with the monument (Ó Ciobháin 1984a, 41, 46)

The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 79. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)

Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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