Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Richardstown (ardee By., Richardstown Par.), County Louth, Ireland
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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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
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
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.