Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Beginish (iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beginish (iveragh By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.93846, -10.29457
- SMR number
- KE079-117001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Recent erosion at (KE079-117----) has exposed an irregular, blackened, stony spread, 5m x 2.9m, which contains a large quantity of iron slag, vitreous clay and bone fragments. A sample of tuyére fragments and scraps of sheet iron from this spread are now in the NMI (1988: 228; 1989:5a-f; 1989:6a-c). A second area (KE079-117001-), 17m to SE, contains some large lumps of iron slag and could represent another smelting site.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1460. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- House - Viking/Hiberno-Norseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.