Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Canfee, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canfee
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79110, -9.79065
- SMR number
- KE108-046----
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
On the crest of a rocky ridge, overlooking Kenmare Bay. A large stone slab (4.3m x 1.35m; T 0.85m) resting on a smaller stone (1.3m x 0.85m; T 0.7m). The W end of the larger stone rests on the ground while the E end is raised (H 1.6m) above ground level. Immediately to the E of this arrangement is an upright stone (H 0.6m; 1.35m x 0.1m) and two small boulder-type stones (H 0.7m).
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.