Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Shronebirrane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shronebirrane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 51.73772, -9.80413
- SMR number
- KE108-022----
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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, in the narrow valley of the Drimminboy River. An incomplete circle (diam. 7.5m) comprising eight upright stones (H 1.18-2m; 0.8-2m x 0.2-0.6m) and one fallen stone, stands in an arc ESE-NNW. One stone (H 0.4m) appears to be broken. The axial stone, which leans inwards, has a flat top and is the longest and lowest stone. The stones in the S half of the perimeter decrease in height as they approach the axial stone. Ó Nualláin (1984a, 29) suggests that this stone circle, 'if symmetrically designed, would seem to have consisted of thirteen closely-set stones'. (Ó Nualláin, 1984a, 29, no. 46)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.