Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Rossanean (magunihy By., Killeentierna Par.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossanean (magunihy By., Killeentierna Par.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16034, -9.51960
- SMR number
- KE048-066----
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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, to the NE of a field drain, on a slight NNW-facing slope. An extensive spread (10m SSE-NNW) of burnt material, the depth (D c. 1m) of which is visible in the side of the drain. This may be the fulacht fia, in Rossanean townland, included in an appendix of fulachtaí fia by M. J. O'Kelly (1954, 151). A possible fulacht fia (KE048-067----) is c. 75m to the S. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.