Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Ballynahoulort, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahoulort
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.28683, -9.71902
- SMR number
- KE029-273----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
'This feature took the form of a natural depression which contained a spread of burnt material – fire cracked stones, charcoal etc. – which was overlain by a series of charcoal stained clay, silt and marl deposits. The excavators suggest that the depression may have been the edge of a small pool or pond and that these clay.silt/marl deposits accumulated on the burnt material following its use. The burnt material extended over an area measuring 2.8m by 1.8m and was 0.30m in depth.'
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 spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.