Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stepping stones
Glanrastel, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanrastel
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.75001, -9.72111
- SMR number
- KE109-097----
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
A series of twelve flat-topped stepping stones traversing the Glanrastel River at a point where it is c. 9m wide. The stones form a gentle arc curving in a downstream direction. They are approached by a disused trackway.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.