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Stone circle - multiple-stone

Cashelkeelty, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle - multiple-stone, Cashelkeelty, 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
Cashelkeelty
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Gallauns
Coordinates
51.75720, -9.81492
SMR number
KE108-013001-

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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)
  • 1868 · 4. 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 rough pasture, on a terrace to the S of a medieval road (KE108-013007-), on the lower N-facing slopes of Knocknaveacal. The remains of this stone circle comprised two upright stones (1.4m x 0.4m; H 2.55m; 0.9m x 0.7m; H 1.5m), 3.4m apart and between them a fallen stone resting against outcropping rock. The fallen stone was re-erected following on from the excavation in 1977 which revealed that the upright stones formed part of a circle (diam. c. 17m) of eleven or thirteen stones (Lynch 1981, 65-9). The only artifact recovered during the excavation was a flint scraper. A standing stone (KE108-013008-) which was indicated c. 30m NW of the stone circle on the 1897 OS 6-inch map, but which does not survive, may have been an outlier of this stone circle. A five-stone circle (KE108-013004-) and a stone row (KE108-013002-) lie c. 80m to the E and there are field boundaries (KE108-013005-) to the N and E. (Ó Nualláin 1984a, 29, no. 47)

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

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

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