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Fulacht fia

Cappocksgreen, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Cappocksgreen, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cappocksgreen
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.85927, -6.52402
SMR number
LH017-106----

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David 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

Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 99E0458). Situated to the W of the River Dee. Consisted of an arc of burnt stones and charcoal-rich soil (max. L 6.6m; max. Wth 2.3m). Within this arc was a sub-rectangular concentration (1.15m x 0.75m) of similar material. Both deposits were no more than 0.8m in thickness. Excavation revealed a possible hearth below the sub-rectangular concentration but there was no evidence of a trough. The only artefact recovered was a waste flint flake from the arc of burnt material. (Seaver 2000, 188)

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 29 June 2012

References

Seaver, M. 2000 Cappocksgreen. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 188 (No. 548). Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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