Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballynahoulort, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahoulort
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.28698, -9.71021
- SMR number
- KE029-272----
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5 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)
- 1951 · Kerry - Sheet 29 (National Library of Scotland)
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The National Monuments Service's description
'This low mound measured 5.65m by 2.40m and was composed of layers of fire cracked stones clay, charcoal stained soil, charcoal and ash. An irregular cut 1.10m by 0.60m and 0.30m deep filled with burnt material was uncovered as were three small stakeholes filled with soil flecked with charcoal. There was, again, no evidence of in situ burning. The irregular cut may have served as a small trough though no lining was recovered.'
Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008
Date of upload: 20 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.