Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Ballynahoulort, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahoulort
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.28682, -9.71899
- SMR number
- KE029-274----
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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 spread extended over an area measuring 1.80m by 1.40m and was only 0.05m thick. It comprised charcoal, soil and some fire cracked stones. The spread was contained in a slight depression in the basal boulder clay.'
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.