Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockacappul, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockacappul
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.07840, -9.26645
- SMR number
- KE068-134----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a S-facing slope to the N of a railway line. A fulacht fia was recorded in Mrs J. Dineen's land in the 1940s (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry) and described as semicircular and '4 feet [1.21m] in diameter & 5 feet [1.52m] high'. According to local information, burnt material was visible on the surface of this field many years ago but it is not now visible.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.