Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Broadlough, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Broadlough
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85902, -6.52120
- SMR number
- LH017-110----
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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. 99E0200). Situated c. 10m E of the River Dee. A small spread of burnt stone and charcoal-rich soil partially overlay a trough. The trough was sub-rectangular (2.12m x 1.5m) with sloping sides and had four large postholes cut through it. (Seaver 2000, 186-7)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 29 June 2012
References
Seaver, M. 2000 Broadlough 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 186-7 (No. 546). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.