Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Crumlin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crumlin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97455, -6.40851
- SMR number
- LH012-067----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 99E0430). Initially identified as a burnt spread with concentrations of charcoal-enriched soil and heat shattered stones. Excavation uncovered two possible hearths, a trough (2.14m x 1.5m; D 0.17m) and two fragments of worked flint. (Lynch, P. 2002, 216)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 April 2012
References
Lynch, P. 2002 Crumlin 2A. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 216 (No. 652). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.