Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Coarha More, County Kerry, Ireland
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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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
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.