Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Cloonalour (trughanacmy By., Tralee Urban Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonalour (trughanacmy By., Tralee Urban Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.27646, -9.69096
- SMR number
- KE029-281----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
'Two small pits close together and both filled with burnt, fire shattered stone. Charcoal from one of the pits produced a calibrated radiocarbon date of 50BC - 110 AD.'
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: 22 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.