Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Dirtane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dirtane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.39576, -9.82147
- SMR number
- KE014-064----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as a 'mound' in the SMR (1990) and the RMP (1997). Toal (1995, 145, no. 470) describes it as being enclosure-like consisting of 'a sub-rectangular raised area, 18m x 25m internally and 1.4m high'. Fieldwork, carried out in 2000, established that this is a fulacht fia and consists of a mound (20m E-W; 20.8m N-S) of black earth and shattered burnt stones.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 09 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.