Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Charcoal-making site
Cummeengeera, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeengeera
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.72681, -9.81634
- SMR number
- KE111-022----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on the N-facing lower slopes of Lackabane Mountain. A sub-square, level area (8.5m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by a scarp which is cut (D 0.9m) into the upslope at S and by a scarp which is built up (H 0.5m) externally at N. The scarp at N decreases in height towards the E and W sides. Lumps of charcoal are visible along the N edge and on the N scarp. Charcoal was produced here in the early 18th-century to supply the iron smelter (KE108-076----) in Lauragh Upper.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.