Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Canfee, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canfee
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79080, -9.78658
- SMR number
- KE108-047----
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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
In rough pasture, on the crest of a rocky ridge, on a N-facing slope overlooking Kenmare Bay. A circular cairn (4.3m E-W; 4.2m N-S; H 1.1m) comprising stones of various shapes and sizes. Stones have been removed from the centre of the cairn, leaving a roughly circular depression (diam. c. 1m; D 0.6m) in which some slabs are visible. Stones are scattered downslope to the N and NE. The outer rim of the cairn is obscured by gorse bushes.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.