Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cooksland, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooksland
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52147, -6.55773
- SMR number
- ME038-077----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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 slight rise on a gentle SW-facing slope. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E0415) by J. Dempsey of Testing Area 1, Contract 2, prior to the construction of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie: 2004:1336) identified burnt mound material, which was completely excavated (E003058) by S. Linnane as Cooksland 2 in July2006 (excavations.ie 2006:1538). The principal feature was a spread of broken and burnt stone (diam. 7.5m; max. T 0.1m) over a grey clay into which a flat-bottomed subrectangular trough (dims 2.05m N-S; 1.5m E-W; max. D 0.45m) had been set just N of the burnt spread. A thin layer of black silty clay covered its base beneath traces of wooden planks and there was a stake-hole at each corner. The wooden sides did not survive but a pale grey clay with sandstone inclusions was used as caulking behind the planking. The trough was filled with a black silty clay with frequent inclusions of burnt stone over the collapsed caulking. A sample of alder charcoal produced a C14 date of 1877-1613 cal. BC (BETA 237581). A retouched flake from an end-scraper was recovered from the lower fill of the trough. Three pits (dims 3.6m x 1.4m; D 0.4m: 2.4m x 0.95m; D 0.35m: 2.6m x 1.1m; D 0.65m) were c. 25m to the NE, but no artefacts were recovered from them, and there were two unmapped, double-ditched field banks in the area. (Linnane 2008)
See the attached plans from Linnane 2008 (figs 7, 8)
_1 Contour plan (interval 0.02m);
_2 Trough;
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 April 2022
References
Linnane, S. J. 2008 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Cooksland 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003058. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Dempsey, J. 2004 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan, Report on the Archaeological Assessment of Testing Area 1, Roestown, Cooksland, County Meath. Licence: 04E0415. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
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