Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Faughart Lower, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Lower
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.03618, -6.39316
- SMR number
- LH004-135----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E1397). At the base of a river terrace at the interface with a flood-plain. Remains consisted of a thin layer of burnt stones and charcoal, a trough (L 2.5m; Wth 1.5m; D 0.5m) with no evidence for lining, a pond feature (L 5.6m; Wth 2.2m; D 0.4m) and a platform (L 1m; Wth 1m; D 0.1m) of semi-charred and waterlogged timbers. (Delaney 2006, 341)
Reference:
Delaney, S. 2006 Faughart Lower Fulacht fiadh, etc.. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 341 (No. 1277). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 18 November 2011
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