Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Glantaunluskaha, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glantaunluskaha
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29711, -9.27633
- SMR number
- KE032-011----
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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
This possible quarried out monument was described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as 'fulacht fiadh material' was discovered on the SSE slope of a 'subcircular depression (dims. 17m N-S x 23m E-W)'. According to the Castleisland Survey, a fulacht fia 'may have been quarried into here' to provide material for farm trackways etc. (SMR file). Sub-circular depression marking site of quarried out possible fulacht fia is visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.