Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Farranastack, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranastack
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51196, -9.57599
- SMR number
- KE005-097----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Three late bronze age pits filled with burnt mound-type material and a shallow narrow curvilinear cut were excavated here in 2003. (Dowd 2005, area 1)
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 02 October 2013
References
Dowd, M. A. 2005 Excavations at Farranastack, Co Kerry: late bronze age activity and evidence for the use of shaft furnaces in high medieval iron production.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.