Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Newtownbalregan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtownbalregan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01568, -6.44425
- SMR number
- LH007-183----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 04E0817). A patchy spread (L 7m; Wth 7m; max. D 0.4m) of burnt stone set in a burnt silty sand under which lay a sub-oval trough (L 1.5m; Wth 1m) and a possible post-hole or pit. (Hayes 2007, 267)
Reference:
Hayes A. 2007 Site 33, Newtownbalregan Fulacht fiadh' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 267 (No. 1119). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 8 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.