Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Sheephouse, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheephouse
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69929, -6.41749
- SMR number
- ME020-029001-
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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
Located on the broad plateau of Platten. Archaeological excavation (E000973) recorded a spread of burnt stone (dims 28m E-W; 23m N-S) in probing topsoil c. 90m N of the excavated fulachta fia (ME020-029002-; ME020-029003-), but it has since become incorporated into a quarry without investigation. (Campbell 1994, 4; 1995, 74, site 3)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 October, 2015
References
Campbell, K. 1994 Donore North quarry: preliminary archaeological report. Licence: E000973. Unpublished report. Author.
Campbell, K. 1995e Sheephouse. Fulachta fiadh. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 73-4, No. 194. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.