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Fulacht fia

Mausrower, County Kerry, Ireland

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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

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 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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