Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Cool West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.90691, -10.38105
- SMR number
- KE087-079----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 23, no. 28, 'It has been interpreted as a hearth by Mitchell.').
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Pillar stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.