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Fulacht fia

Greenan (Slane Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Greenan, County Meath, 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
Greenan (Slane Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.85046, -6.64538
SMR number
ME006-013001-

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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)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · 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

Located in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. Two fulachta fia were recorded side by side in an E-W line in 1968 (SMR file). This is the eastern one and is described as a grass-covered kidney-shaped mound (dims 10.8m N-S; 9.8m E-W; max. H 0.3m) with an indentation at S for a trough. Fulacht fia (ME005-013----) is c. 1m to the W and the three fulachta fia (ME006-52----; ME006-052001-; ME006-052002-) are c. 100m to the NW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 6 October 2022

References

SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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