Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Caher (Magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caher (Magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulacht Fian
- Coordinates
- 52.08114, -9.53596
- SMR number
- KE066-029----
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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)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In heavily overgrown boggy land, on the E bank of a small stream. A horseshoe-shaped mound (10m N-S; 8m E-W; H 1.2m) of burnt material, the S half of which is cut by a narrow channel. The opening is at W and is covered by a small mound of earth and rocks. A possible fulacht fia (KE066-030----) is c. 110m to the NE.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.