Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Haggardstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haggardstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97492, -6.39294
- SMR number
- LH012-074----
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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 during pre-development test excavation (Excavation Licence No. 98E0440 ext.). The remains of a ploughed out fulacht fia with a max. D of 0.4m were identified. Four pits were excavated, the largest of which probably functioned as a trough (c. 3m x 1.35m; max. D 0.4m). (McLoughlin 2000, 213)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of uplaod: 20 April 2012
References
McLoughlin, C. 2000 Mullagharlin/Haggardstown, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 213-15, no. 610. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.