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Fulacht fia

Town Parks (Kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Town Parks, 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
Town Parks (Kells Upper By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73261, -6.89173
SMR number
ME017-073003-

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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 hollow at 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 identified three spreads of burnt mound material on the route of the N52 Kells link road. The material was on either side of the NW-SE field bank and townland boundary between Commons of Lloyd to the SW and Town Parks to the NE (excavations.ie 2004:1345). These were completely resolved (E003156) by D. Bayley (2010) as Town Parks/Commons of Lloyd 1 in February – March 2007 (excavations.ie 2007:1401) when just over 3700 square metres were opened and three burnt mounds were recorded.

This consisted of a large spread (diam. 20m; T 0.21m) of dark brown silty clay with broken and burnt stones that covered a possible trough in the form of a circular flat-bottomed pit (diam. 1.2m; max. D 0.96m) filled with redeposited brown/black gravelly silt with burnt stones. This was located at the S extent of the mound and was sealed by mound material. At the NE edge of the mound an oval pit (dims 1.5m x 0.9m; D 0.3m) had a clay lining and a fill of charcoal-rich black sandy silt beneath a top fill of burnt mound material. This mound was cut by numerous post-medieval field drains, and no artefacts were recovered from it. (Bayley 2010, 8-9)

Site the attached site plan and monument plan from Bayley (2010, figs 5, 10)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 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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