Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Dromavally (trughanacmy By., Ballyseedy Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromavally (trughanacmy By., Ballyseedy Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.23481, -9.64772
- SMR number
- KE038-133----
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Shown on 4 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
'The land in this area is relatively marshy and the enclosure holds water after prolonged periods of rain. Two low mounds were located 25m to the north of the enclosure [KE038-131---] and these were destroyed by the construction of an unauthorised access road to a O2 telecommunications mast site in 1999 (since abandoned). Archaeological sieving of the material excavated for the access road clearly indicates that these mounds contained burnt and fire shattered stone as well as charcoal. The larger more westerly mound (KE038-132----) measured 4.3m by 3.3m and was 0.31m in height, the smaller more easterly mound (KE038-133----) measured 3.1m by 3m and was only 0.22m in height. A distinct trough area was not visible in either mound.'
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.