Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Tylagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tylagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.28773, -9.58652
- SMR number
- KE030-013----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
'This site is located approximately 40m south of KE030-087----..........Like other similar sites in this general area of Tylagh townland, the site affords good views of the Lee Valley to the south and south-west. The grass covered low mound is 0.61m in maximum height and measures 10.9m N-S by 11.8m E-W. again, as with KE030-012----, KE030-086----, KE030-087----, no trough area is visible.'
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: 12 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.