Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Coarha Beg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coarha Beg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.89915, -10.39604
- SMR number
- KE087-008----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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
This stone feature, of Mesolithic date, was revealed by peat-cutting about 200m E of the inselberg in the Imlagh Basin, Valencia Island. It is preserved in section in a 1.65m high peat-face, .4m above the base of the bog, and survives as a 6m long spread of flat slabs which incorporates an oak baulk. A thin sheet of sand extends along the peat-face from the N edge of the stone spread. A peat sample from this level yielded a radiocarbon date of 6560±120 BP. The oak baulk was dated to 8910±150 BP. Mitchell interprets this feature as a platform, laid on the surface of the bog c. 6560 BP, into which a piece of fossil oak was incorporated (1989, 78-9).
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. 25. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
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