Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
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
- 53.69821, -6.41826
- SMR number
- ME020-029002-
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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 at the head of a SE-NW gully on the broad plateau of Platten. Archaeological excavation (E000973) recorded a triangular spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 19m E-W; 13m N-S; T 0.1-0.23m) with an oval trough (dims 2.2m NW-SE; 1.45m NE-SW; D 1m) at the SW edge that had four layers including organic remains (hazel nuts, seeds of blackberry, buttercup and nettle) from the lowest. A flint scraper was found at the E edge of the spread. The fulacht fia (ME020-029003-) is c. 50m to the E and the burnt mound (ME020-029001-) is c. 120m to the NNE. (Campbell 1994, 2, 3 site 1; 1995e, 73)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 October, 2015
References
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
Campbell, K. 1994 Donore North quarry: preliminary archaeological report. Licence: E000973. Unpublished report. Author.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 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.