Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Curraglass, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraglass
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01399, -9.38742
- SMR number
- KE075-037002-
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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 rough pasture, on the break of a NE-facing slope, with a stream c. 10m to the W. A horseshoe-shaped mound (19.5m N-S; c. 17m E-W; H 0.5m) with an opening (4.15m N-S) facing W. The mound is eroded at the E where it has been trampled by sheep accessing feeding-troughs. There is a mature tree adjacent to the NE and a farm road at E. Another fulacht fia (KE075-037001-) is 5.4m to the N.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.