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Furnace

Richardstown (Ardee By., Richardstown Par.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Furnace, Richardstown (Ardee By., Richardstown Par.), 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
Richardstown (Ardee By., Richardstown Par.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.85951, -6.48225
SMR number
LH017-114----

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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

Excavation here (Excavation Licence No. 99E0526) showed bronze working activity had cut into an earlier house (LH017-113----), apparently of Neolithic date. The Bronze Age features included 'a quatrefoil-shaped furnace with four flues and a vent, an irregular, bowl-shaped furnace, two large roasting pits and three pits filled with ash and charcoal-rich soil. Bronze slag and a number of sherds of coarseware pottery were found in the fill of the furnace' (Byrnes 2000, 222).

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 29 June 2012

References

Byrnes, E. 2000 Richardstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 221-2 (No. 637). 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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