Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Boolies (kells Upper By., Burry Ed), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolies (kells Upper By., Burry Ed)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71670, -6.92500
- SMR number
- ME016-078001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated at the bottom of an E-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E1053) by G. Mcloughlin (2005) at Testing Area 2 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1189) identified two spreads of broken and burnt stone that were fully resolved (E003167) by I. Russell in October and November 2006 as Boolies 1 (excavations.ie 2006:1514). This spread of burnt and broken stone (dims 11.5m x 10.5m; max. T 0.24m) was at the S edge of the road-take but very little remained outside it. It overlay a rectangular trough (dims 2m x 1.05m; max. D 0.71m) with steep sides and a flat base and another triangular pit (dims 2.3m x 1.8m; max. D 0.33m). Both the trough and pit were filled with broken and burnt stone in a black matrix. No bones or artefacts were recovered and no date is available. The fulacht fia (ME016-078002-) is c. 10m to the NE. (Russell and Ginn 2008, 2-3)
See the attached plan from Russell and Ginn (2008, fig. 7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 March 2022
References
McLoughlin, G. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 2 in Boolies, County Meath. Licence: 04E1053. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Russell, I. and V. Ginn 2008 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells, Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Boolies 1, Co. Meath. Licence: E003167. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.