Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Carrickmines Great, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickmines Great
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24594, -6.16362
- SMR number
- DU026-150----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A burnt mound was identified during topsoil-stripping for the South-Eastern Motorway (M50). An area of decayed and burnt stone (L9m, Wth 20m) was revealed which covered two possible troughs . A sherd of Early Bronze Age pottery was found in the fill (O'Reilly 2004, 134).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 26 May 2018.
References
O'Reilly, F. 2004b Site 79, Carrickmines Great. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 134. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.