Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballynacourty, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.15957, -10.07458
- SMR number
- KE044-140----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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
In a bog, covered by rough moorgrass and gorse, immediately to the E of a south-flowing river. In the course of removing vegetation cover in advance of tree planting, burnt stones and charcoal enriched soil were exposed on a low mound (8m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.1m).
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 13 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.