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Burnt spread

Coarha More, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt spread, Coarha More, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coarha More
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.89199, -10.35412
SMR number
KE087-041----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Traces of a fulacht fiadh were exposed in the side of a drain at this location in the mid-1980s. The site is located on the landward end of a low peat-covered rise which juts into Portmagee Channel at the S side of Valencia Island. Resting on .4m of peat, the site is exposed as a .15m thick lens of charcoal and burnt stone. The charcoal was identified as that of oak, hawthorn and poplar/willow, and it yielded a radiocarbon determination of 3800±100 BP (Mitchell 1989, 82).

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. 421. 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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