Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballydowny, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydowny
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06908, -9.52812
- SMR number
- KE066-144----
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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
A mound of burnt material (c. 11m N-S; 4.4m E-W), which covered a hearth and an oval trough, was excavated in 2002 prior to the construction of a housing estate (Kiely 2004c, 218). A calibrated radiocarbon date of 1892-1540 BC was obtained from the lower of two layers of the burnt material and four stake holes, found 2m W of the hearth, may have marked the location of a windbreak (ibid.).
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.