Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Readsland, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Readsland
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51378, -6.55603
- SMR number
- ME044-054----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope with a small silted hollow, probably a silted pond, just to the SE. Archaeological monitoring (15E0125) by S. McGlade in Phase 1 of the archaeological mitigation connected with a housing development identified a number of pits in a confined area (excavations.ie 2018: 032). These are the remnants of a fulacht fia and all the features were excavated under the original licence by the same archaeologist as the W fulacht fia. A rectangular trough (dims 1.2m x 0.9m; D 0.2m) with fairly steep sides has six stakeholes and a post-hole in the base. These indicate that the base was probably lined with wood. It had two original fills that might have been partly cleared out at N where a layer of broken and burnt stone, the last remnant of the mound, survived but there were no other features. (McGlade 2020, vol. 1, 44-5)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 December 2021
References
McGlade, S. 2020 Preliminary Excavation Report. Readsland, Dunshaughlin. Licences: 15E0125; 18R0174. Unpublished report, 2 vols archaeology plan
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.