Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Dromiskin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromiskin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92202, -6.39936
- SMR number
- LH012-088----
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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 archaeological test trenching (Excavation Licence No. 99E0549). A spread of burnt clay with fragments of orange fire-cracked sandstone was exposed. This may represent the ploughed out remains of a fulacht fia. An animal bone was recovered from the burnt layer. One of two possible fulacht fia discovered in close proximity (see also LH012-078----). (Murphy, Donald 2000, 207)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 May 2012
References
Murphy, Donald. 2000 Dromiskin. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 207 (No. 591). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.