Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cool West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.90646, -10.38146
- SMR number
- KE087-005----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two fulachta fiadh are located in cutaway bog close to the E margin of Emlagh Bog, Valencia Island. They lie exposed in section at the base of a 3m high field boundary, formed by an uncut bank of peat, and survive as two small pits, c .5m long. From one pit a sample of ling charcoal yielded a radiocarbon date of 3400±90 BP (Mitchell 1989, 77). Two low piles of upcast gravel and fire-shattered stone occur, in section, alongside the pits.
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. 422. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Pillar stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Pillar stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.