Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Shrone Beg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shrone Beg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05207, -9.27273
- SMR number
- KE068-094----
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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 marshy pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope with views SW to the Paps of Dana. A partially eroded horseshoe-shaped mound (8.5m N-S; 6.2m E-W; H 0.5m) of burnt material with an opening (2m E-W; 1.8m N-S) facing W. This is the fulacht fia recorded in the 1940s on Thomas O'Connor's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.