What is recorded here
Mentioned in local lore as a standing stone within a small cairn in Dromnycolman, County Kerry, the site presents as a modest cluster of stones rather than a monumental marker. The story is that people once set one stone upright among the others, perhaps to remember a loss, claim a boundary or guide travellers through open country. The chamber and hearth elsewhere in Dromnycolman suggest the area was lived in, not merely passed across. The stone may have belonged to that same ordinary world, waiting for someone to return and give it a name.
In the centre of a cairn (KE094-067001-). This standing stone (0.48m x 0.17m; H 1.05m) is orientated ENE-WSW and leans slightly to the SW. It is supported by stones from the cairn (H 0.65m).
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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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