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Fulacht fia

Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Oldcastle, 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
Oldcastle
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.76717, -7.15583
SMR number
ME009-115----

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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)
  • 1869 · 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

Situated in a level landscape c. 5m E of a canalised NNE-SSW stream. Archaeological monitoring (12E0387) of a sewer pipe by B. O’Hara (excavations.ie 2013:116) identified a spread of broken and burnt stone that was fully excavated under the same licecne. A layer of broken and burnt stone (diam. 6.6-6.72m; max. D 0.49m) was partially covered by silts and lay over a subcircular, straight-sided trough (diam. 1.6-2m; max. D 0.25m) with a flat base cut in the subsoil. The trough contained two fills with different quantities of heat-shattered stone, and a sample of cherry charcoal from the base produced a C14 date of 2111-1887 cal. BC. A second subcircular trough (diam. 1.5-1.77m; max. D 0.32m) with two stones set in its rounded base was nearby and had a single fill of silty clay with heat-shattered stone. A sample of willow from this fill produced a C14 date of 2291-2050 cal. BC. No artefacts were recovered from the monument. (O’Hara and Hourihan 2014)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 27 September 2021

O’Hara, B. and Hourihan, S. 2014 Final Report on Archaeological Excavations at Oldcastle Townland, Oldcastle, County Meath. Licence: 12E0387. Unpublished report, Rubicon Heritage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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