Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Randalstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Randalstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69389, -6.71369
- SMR number
- ME018-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (98E0352) by Donald Murphy of topsoil removal over an area of about 8 hectares (c. 20 acres) in the N borrowing area of a mining development identified four spreads of burnt mound material and other features that were completely excavated by the same archaeologist under the same license (excavations.ie 1999:708). The features in Area 5 were resolved as two pits (diam. 0.5-0.53m; D 0.12m: 0.3-0.32m; D 0.12m) set 6.55m apart and c. 25m NW of the fulacht fia (ME018-035----). They were both filled with silty clays that had charcoal flecks or some burnt stone, and three flints, one with secondary working, were recovered from the larger pit. (Murphy 1999, 11)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 March 2023
Murphy, Donald 1999 Report on Archaeological Excavation at Randalstown, Co. Meath. Licence: 98E0352 ext. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.