What is recorded here

Standing stone in Erneen is a rectangular stone, 1.45m tall and 1.2m wide, set on a south-facing slope in County Kerry. It points northwest-southeast, overlooking a river valley through rough pasture. People may have placed it there to mark a boundary, honour a dead person, or watch the water below. Whatever it was for, it still stands where the land and river meet.

In rough hill pasture, on a S-facing slope, overlooking a river valley. This standing stone (1.2m x 0.6m; H 1.45m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated NW-SE. 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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