Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cappocksgreen, County Louth, Ireland
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----
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. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.