Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Groin (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Groin (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulachta fian
- Coordinates
- 52.07633, -9.52830
- SMR number
- KE066-036002-
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
On level ground, in poorly drained rough pasture. This is one of three mounds (see KE066-036001-, KE066-036003-) indicated on the 1939 OS 6-inch map and named 'Fulachta Fian'. When inspected in 1999 the area was being developed as a holiday-home complex and there were no visible remains of this fulacht fia. Monitoring of ground disturbance work associated with the development identified an L-shaped deposit of burnt material (4.5m N-S; 3.6m E-W; max. D 0.2m) which was exposed in section during the digging of a drain in 2000-2001 (Dennehy 2003d, 158-9, Site 3). Excavation work was confined to the recording of the exposed section (ibid.). A fulacht fia (KE066-036003-) lies c. 55m to the SE and three others (KE066-036001-, KE066-036004-, KE066-036005-) lie c. 50m, c. 100m and 150m to the NW, 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.