Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Commons of Lloyd, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons of Lloyd
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73484, -6.89604
- SMR number
- ME016-083002-
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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
Located in a slight fold opening out to the NW and situated towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of the Hill of Lloyd. Archaeological testing (04E0913) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 14 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1345) identified archaeological material on the route of the N52 Kells link road that was partially excavated by Y. Whitty (E003157) in March 2006 as Commons of Lloyd 1 (2010) when a fulacht fia was completely excavated and part of a ring-ditch was also sampled (excavations.ie 2007:1289).
A layer of charcoal-rich and heat-affected stones (dims 10.5m x 7.5m; max. T 0.3m) was immediately E of an oval pit (dims 2.65m N-S; 1.08m E-W; D 0.33m) with a rounded bottom. The basal layer of the pit had burnt stone that lies beneath two layers of yellow/brown sand and it probably functioned as a trough. The mound contained seeds of wild and cultivated plants, and a sample of hazel charcoal from it yielded a C14 date of 1113-928 cal. BC (UBA 11125). The ring-ditch is c. 20m to the NW. (Whitty 2010)
See the attached plan (R) from Whitty (2010, fig. 5)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 March 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.