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Fulacht fia

Boolies (Kells Upper By., Burry ED), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Boolies, 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
Boolies (Kells Upper By., Burry ED)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.71683, -6.92478
SMR number
ME016-078002-

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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 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 14m x 12m; max. T 0.19m) overlay a rectangular trough (dims 1.9m x 1.52m; D 0.27m) with a stake-hole at each corner and two at the NW, and a small quantity of cremated bone was recovered from one of the stake-holes. The trough was filled with burnt mound material and a sample of hazel charcoal from it returned a C14 date of 1266-1009 cal. BC (Beta 247135). A second subrectangular pit (dims 1.63m x 1.19m; D 0.18m) at the N edge of the mound was also filled with broken and burnt stone but it was V-shaped in section and could not have served as a trough. The fulacht fia (ME016-078001-) is c. 10m to the SW. (Russell and Ginn 2008, 2)

See the attached plan from Russell and Ginn (2008, fig. 7)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 4 March 2022

References

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

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

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

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