Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Shankill, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankill
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22169, -6.14438
- SMR number
- DU026-139----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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
Top soil monitoring in 1998 revealed an oval trough (1.5m x 1.1m x 0.3m deep) sealed by a deposit of clay that also sealed a number of deposits of burnt stone and charcoal, a cobbled area and a line of stake-holes. A subrectangular hut site was also associated with it. This suggests that this phase saw the use of a trough alongside a cobbled area and hut site. The stake-holes began parallel to the trough and may have acted as some form of windbreak or screen at the southern end of the cobbled area, shielding the site from the prevailing winds (O'Neill 2000, 37-9). The trough had been excavated down to the local shale bedrock and appeared to fill freely with water, which percolated through the beds of shale. A sticky, grey clay, heavily stained with charcoal, filled the trough. The area of stake-holes measured 3.6m (north- south) by 2.1m and was defined by an oval setting of stake-holes. There was no indication of the presence of an entrance, other than an ill-defined gap in the south-eastern corner. The presence of multiple lines of stake-holes in some places suggested that there were a number of phases of reuse of the site for some form of light hut or tent structure (O'Neill 2000, 37-9).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.
References
O'Neill, J. 2000 Carrickmines- Bray Gas Pipeline, Carrickmines Great/ Laughanstown/Ticknick/ Rathmichael/ Shankill/ Ballyman. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 37-9. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.