Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Dromatouk, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromatouk
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88444, -9.52367
- SMR number
- KE093-026004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In peaty pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope in undulating moorland. A horizon of burnt material (L 6m; T 0.6m) just under the sod layer, is exposed in the N bank of an E-W drain. Burnt stones can be traced for c. 0.5m to the N of the drain.
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.