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Fulacht fia

Baltrasna (Ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Baltrasna, 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
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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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 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 Unpublished report, CRDS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

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

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