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Fulacht fia

Commons of Lloyd, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Commons of Lloyd, 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
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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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

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

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

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