Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ballydowny, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydowny
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06882, -9.52814
- SMR number
- KE066-144005-
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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
An isolated pit (2.64m x 1.04m; D 0.7m) was found during archaeological excavations in advance of the construction of a housing development in 2002 (Kiely 2004c, 218). The pit was located c. 25m NE of a fulacht fia (KE066-144003-).
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.