Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cookstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cookstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89544, -6.58446
- SMR number
- LH014-069----
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. 98E0125 (Site I)). Excavation revealed a spread of burnt stones and charcoal rich soil (11m x 9m) under which was a rectangular pit (2.5m x 1.2m) cut into the natural clay. A stone with incised lines on it, together with animal bone and teeth and some fragments of burnt bone were recovered. (Breen 2000, 153)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 31 May 2012
References
Breen, T. 2000 Tattyboys/Knocklore/Cookstown/Rahanna/Harristown/Glebe. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 153 (No. 471). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.