Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Newtown Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Monasterboice
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76348, -6.41436
- SMR number
- LH021-064----
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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. 00E0796), beside a stream above an area of fen peat on a gentle S-facing slope. A deposit (15m x 8m; D 0.4m) consisting largely of charcoal, ash and burnt sandstone was initially exposed. Removal of this layer revealed a trough and four circular pits which possibly functioned as hearths. The trough was rectangular shaped (2m x 1.4m; max. D 0.55m), filled with the burnt mound material and had the impressions of at least three wooden planks at its base. A convex scraper was recovered from one of the four pits. (Ó Drisceoil 2002, 238)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 July 2012
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2002 Site 1, Newtown-Monasterboice. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 238 (No. 700). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
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- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.