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Fulacht fia

Mausrower, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Mausrower, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mausrower
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.12291, -9.29558
SMR number
KE060-002----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. There are no visible remains of this fulacht fia. A report dating to 1980 describes a conical mound (diam. 12m; H 1.2m) situated on the downhill side of, and c. 4m away from, a well in marshy land (SMR file). The report also noted that burnt material was exposed in the edge of a field boundary, a few metres W of the well (ibid.). This is probably one of two fulachtaí fia (see KE060-076----) recorded in the 1940s in William Daly's land and which measured '50ft [15.24m] in diameter and 10 feet [3.05m] high' with a hollow in the centre, measuring '9 feet [2.74m] x 3 [feet] [0.91m]' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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