Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24368, -6.15301
- SMR number
- DU026-164----
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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
This fulacht fia was situated on a SW-facing sloping grassland represented as marshy ground on OS 19th century maps; this land was reclaimed in the late 19th/early 20th century. The site was discovered in the course of monitoring topsoil stripping in 2003 (License number 03E1370) the remains consisted of a burnt mound (16.6m N-S by 27.5m E-W; max. H 0.3m) composed of black silty clay with frequent inclusions of charcoal and heat-cracked stone. The mound contained a trough (1.6m x 0.8m; depth 0.4m). The monument was covered over and preserved in situ. A second burnt mound (DU026-164----) was discovered c. 95m to the NW (pers. comm. Melanie McQuade, 26 November 2014).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 28 November 2014
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.