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Fulacht fia

Sheephouse, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Sheephouse, 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
Sheephouse
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.69834, -6.41715
SMR number
ME020-029003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 broad hollow on the NW-facing slope of Platten. Archaeological excavation (E000973) recorded a rectangular spread of burnt stone (dims 10.5m N-S; 6m E-W; max. T 0.4m) that sealed a rectangular trough (dims 0.95m x 0.7m; D 0.6m) cut into the shale bedrock at N. Beneath the spread at the S was a possible hearth visible as a circular spread of silty clay with charcoal (diam. c. 1m; T 0.2m). Recovered from the stone spread was a burnt fragment of a stone axe. Extending NW from the stone spread were 7 pits (diam. 0.7-1.3m; D 0.1-0.7m) filled with burnt stone. Fulacht fia (ME020-029002-) is c. 50m to the W and the burnt spread (ME020-029001-) is c. 100m to the N. (Campbell 1994 3, 4 site 2; 1995e, 73-4)

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 Unpublished report.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

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

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