Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Dromore (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromore (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17139, -9.55542
- SMR number
- KE048-041----
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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
In a wet area, at the base of a N-facing slope. A partially overgrown roughly horseshoe-shaped mound (11.8m NW-SE; 9.1m NE-SW; H 0.75m) of burnt material with the opening (c. 4.3m NW-SE) facing SW (CDAS). Subsequent to the site inspection, archaeological test trenching, in advance of a proposed housing development, revealed that the dimensions of the fulacht fia were 12m N-S x 10m E-W and 1m in height and that the mound lay directly on peat (Kiely 2004a, 215-16).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.