Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Baltrasna (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltrasna (ratoath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49353, -6.38580
- SMR number
- ME045-030----
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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 low ground at the bottom of a slight N-facing slope in a gently undulating, low-lying landscape, with a palaeo-channel (Wth c. 12m) c. 20m to the NW. Archaeological testing (03E1361) by D. Bonner identified two burnt mounds in Area 15 of the N2 Finglas to Ashbourne road and bypass (excavations.ie 2003:1361), which were completely excavated by C. Murray under the same licence (excavations.ie 2004:1179). This is a subcircular area of broken and burnt stone (dims 8.15m N-S; 6.3m E-W; T 0.2-0.25m) associated with a large, flat-bottomed oval trough (dims 1.8m NW-SE; 1.35m NE-SW; max. D 0.45m) and a small pit (dims 0.66m x 0.45m; D 0.34m) 2.1m S of the trough. The trough was filled with silts mixed with burnt stones, charcoal and scorched alder. A sample from the wood produced a C14 date of 2140-1940 cal. BC. (Murray 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 December 2021
References
Murray, C. 2008 N2 Finglas-Ashbourne Road Scheme. Report on Archaeological Excavation of Site 15, Baltrasna, Co. Meath. Licence No. 03E1361. Unpublished report, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.