Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Caherleheen (Trughanacmy By., Ballyseedy Par.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherleheen (Trughanacmy By., Ballyseedy Par.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.24774, -9.68055
- SMR number
- KE038-120----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
'This site was initially identified as a probable fulacht fiadh on black and white aerial photography in September 2004. The site was clearly visible in an extensive tract of wet, marshy land. The site consists of a sub0circular raised dry area in an area of marsh the mound is 0.6m high and measures 28m by 18m. It is cut from north to south by a water-filled ditch and field boundary. No definitive 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: 22 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.