Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Dromin (magunihy By., Dromin Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromin (magunihy By., Dromin Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulacht Fian
- Coordinates
- 52.07393, -9.58583
- SMR number
- KE066-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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. A low horseshoe-shaped mound (4m E-W; 2.8m N-S; H 0.15m) of burnt material, with the opening (2.1m N-S; 0.6m E-W; D 0.1m) facing S, was inspected here in 1999. Subsequent to the inspection, archaeological test trenching revealed that the fulacht fia material extended beyond the depiction of the site on the 1894 OS 6-inch map (Purcell 2003, 166). Excavation of the S part of the fulacht fia later revealed burnt material (D 0.32m) which had been disturbed and relocated due to ploughing and drainage works (Purcell 2004a, 215).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.