Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Brackaharagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackaharagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.76694, -10.07603
- SMR number
- KE106-154----
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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
In pasture overgrown with briars, bracken and gorse, the long axis of this standing stone is aligned NE/SW. Sub-rectangular in plan (its sides at ground level measure: SW- 0.4m, SE - 0.8m, NE - 0.55m and NW – 0.88m) and 1m high, its sides are parallel for c. 0.6m before tapering to a point. Ground level is slightly lower at SE than at NW. Good views to SE towards Knocknasullig (also known locally as the Sugarloaf). Derelict two-storey house 25m to SSE. Identified as a standing stone by Aoibheann Lambe (2018).
Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe
Date of upload: 25 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.