Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Gorteen (fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (fassadinin By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.82586, -7.13586
- SMR number
- KK006-015----
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
Identified during monitoring of topsoil removal at Gorteen Quarry. A burnt spread (dims. 14m by 4.5m; D 0.13m). The spread was truncated by a modern field drain that had been associated with an overlying field boundary embankment. (Mc Loughlin)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 February 2016
References
McLoughlin, C. 2008 Gorteen: burnt mound/fulacht fiadh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 196, No. 810. Wordwell. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.