Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Lackabaun, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackabaun
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.25924, -9.48621
- SMR number
- KE030-070----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A single shallow circular burnt pit (0.33m E-W; 0.31m N-S; D 0.04m) which contained a single charcoal-enriched fill within a fire-reddened clay cut. The excavator concluded that 'given the proximity of the pit to a known enclosure (KE030-064----], it is possible that the pit was medieval in date and functioned in tandem with the enclosure (Dunne 2003, 170-1)'. This pit was completely excavated.
References
Dunne, L. 2003 Lackabaun, pit. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 170-71.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.