Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Marshes Upper, County Louth, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.