Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Curraghmacdonagh (trughanacmy By., Ballymacelligott Par.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghmacdonagh (trughanacmy By., Ballymacelligott Par.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25707, -9.63775
- SMR number
- KE029-254----
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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
'This burnt spread was situated in a wet and marshy field on the immediate north side of the main Tralee/ Killarney roadway.All that remains of this site is a scattered spread of burnt stone and charcoal which has been dug from the ground during the excavation of a large sump-like pond connected with the nearby Ballyseedy Garden Centre. The dimensions of the burnt spread was approximately 2.00m N-S by 2.00m E-W. This is unlikely to represent the true dimensions of the site, and is probably the remnants of just one JCB bucketful. Other isolated pockets of burnt red sandstone are to be found through the resultant spoil heap from the digging of this sump.'
Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97.
Date of upload: 02 May 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.