Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Islandearagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islandearagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09464, -9.22914
- SMR number
- KE060-020----
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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 pasture, on a S-facing slope with views SW to the Paps of Dana. Recent drainage works have exposed a layer of burnt material (4m N-S; D 0.7m) on the W face of the bank of a stream. The layer profile narrows towards both ends. Some burnt material is also visible in the bed of the stream. A spread of burnt material (4m N-S; 2m E-W) is visible on the surface of the W bank of the stream. This is the fulacht fia measuring '4 feet [1.21m] square' recorded in the 1940s in Dan Donoghue's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Two other burnt spreads (KE060-020001-, KE060-080----) are c. 15m to the E and c. 150m to the S, respectively.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.