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
- 53.69834, -6.41715
- SMR number
- ME020-029003-
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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 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 Unpublished report.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
- 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.