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Fulacht fia

Marshes Upper, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Marshes Upper, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Marshes Upper
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.98316, -6.39456
SMR number
LH007-182----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

An area of archaeological potential was identified during testing undertaken in advance of the construction of a nursing school building at Dundalk Institute of Technology (Excavation Licence No. 03E1109) (Phelan 2006, 337). Full excavation (Excavation Licence No. 03E1509) revealed 'a number of fire-pits filled with burnt-mound material, a natural depression whose base and lip were metalled along one side, several post- and stake-holes, and a number of irregular pits and spreads containing sediment.' (Frazer 2006, 337). No definite evidence for a trough was found leading the excavator to suggest that the fire pits may have been used an 'earth oven', a dry variant of a fulacht trough. (Frazer 2006, 337-8)

References:

Phelan, S. 2006 Marshes Upper, Dundalk Post-holes; burnt spreads. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 337 (No. 1263). Bray. Wordwell

Frazer, W. 2006 Marshes Upper, Possible prehistoric 'earth oven'. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 337-8 (No. 1264). Bray. Wordwell

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 8 December 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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