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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
53.71634, -6.89493
SMR number
ME017-076----

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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 on a slight S-facing slope with a small NW-SE canalised stream just to the NE. Archaeological testing (04E0915) by S. Delaney (2005) at Testing Area 12 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1355) archaeological material that was completely excavated (E003152) in December 2006 by Y. Whitty (2010) as Town Parks 6 when an area of 580 square metres was opened and a fulacht fia was recorded (excavations.ie 2007:1400). A spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 10.8m E-W; 4.5m N-S; T 0.15m) was c. 3m W of a rectangular trough (dims 2.48m x 1.5m; D 0.14m) that had postholes in three of its angles. It was filled with a brown/black sandy clay with frequent heat-affected stone inclusions. A fragment of oak charcoal from a twig in one of the post-holes provided a C14 date of 3749-3640 cal. BC (UBA 11101) placing it firmly in the early Neolithic. A gully (L 9m; Wth 1.15m; D 0.33m) filled with a black silty sand and heat-shattered stones extended from the S edge of the mound ESE and cut the S edge of the rectangular trough. A second circular trough (diam. 1.25m; D 0.28m), c. 8m N of the mound was filled with burnt mound material and is probably contemporary. No artefacts were recovered. (Whitty 2010, 5-7)

See the attached plan from Whitty (2010, fig. 5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 March 2022

References

Delaney, S. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 4, Navan - Kells and Kells Bypass. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 12 in Rockfield and Town Parks, County Meath. Licence: 04E0915. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Whitty, Y. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Town Parks 6, Co. Meath. Licence: E003152. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Nearby in the register

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

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