Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
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
- 52.15946, -9.51926
- SMR number
- KE048-067----
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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 marshy area, on a slight NNW-facing slope. A low mound (19.3m ENE-WSW; 16.8m SSE-NNW; H 0.6m) of burnt material. This may be the fulacht fia, in Rossanean townland, included in an appendix of fulachtaí fia by M. J. O'Kelly (1954, 151). A burnt spread (KE048-066----) is c. 75m to the N. (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
- Burnt spreadunder 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.