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Fulacht fia

Archdeaconry Glebe, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Archdeaconry Glebe, 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
Archdeaconry Glebe
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73343, -6.87846
SMR number
ME017-069001-

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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 fold on a gentle N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (04E0034) by B. Halpin of a fairly small area (c. 2 ha) identified a burnt mound (excavations.ie 2004:1255), which was subsequently fully excavated (04E0261) by the same archaeologist (excavations.ie 2004:1256). It consists of a circular mound (diam. 9.5m N-S; 9.2m E-W; max. T 0.28m) of a charcoal-rich soil with broken and burnt sandstone. There were four pits (dims 06m x 0.3m; D 0.18m to 1.52m x 1.3m; D 0.38m) filled with the same material outside the spread. A rectangular trough (dims 1.95m E-W; 1.3m N-S: D 0.28-0.45m) with a large post-hole in each corner was beneath the SW edge of the mound. There was some evidence of plank-lining on the S side of the trough, from where a gully (Wth 0.3m; D 0.1m) extended off to the SE (L 3m). No artefacts were recovered, but about 9m to the NE was a second fulacht fia (ME017-069002-). (Halpin 2004)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 26 February 2021

References

Halpin, B. 2004 Report on Archaeological Excavation at Kells, Co. Meath. Licence: 04E0261. Unpublished report, National Archaeological Services

Nearby in the register

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

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