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
- 53.76423, -6.41400
- SMR number
- LH021-074----
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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 towards the top of a gentle S-facing slope. Excavation initially revealed a concentration of burnt stones and charcoal (5.2m x 5.1m; max. D 0.5m). Removal of this material revealed a trough, two conjoined pits, a hearth and some 25 stakeholes. The trough was rectangular with six planks of alder at its base and on top of these was a large boulder which may have functioned as a 'pot-boiler'. The only finds recovered from the site were some flakes of flint débitage. (Ó Drisceoil 2002, 238)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
Not indicated
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2002 Site 3, Newtown-Monasterboice. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 238 (No. 702). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.