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Fulacht fia

Harlockstown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Harlockstown, 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
Harlockstown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.49893, -6.41780
SMR number
ME045-039----

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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 in a hollow on a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (03E1237) by D. Boner of Area 31 in advance of the N2 bypass of Ashbourne identified a trough and burnt mound material (Boner and Hackett 2003) which was excavated by C. Murray under the same licence (excavations.ie 2004:1247) in the confined area between a NE-SW field drain and bank at SE and the N-S boundary of the land-take at W. It consists of a subcircular trough (dims 1.15m NE-SW; 0.8m NW-SE; D 0.17m) which was filled with a charcoal-rich clay that contained burnt and broken stone. Just 2.6m to the SW was a mound (dims 2.1m N-S; 1.6m E-W; max. D 0.26m) of broken and burnt stone in a shallow cut that was truncated by a field drain at S but extended outside the road-take to the W. Detached spreads of burnt mound material lay 2.1m to the NE (dims 0.65m x 0.26m) and 3m NW (0.65m x 0.52m) of the trough, and post-medieval furrows run NW-SE through the earlier features. No artefacts were recovered, and no radiocarbon dates are available. (Murray 2008)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 21 December 2021

References

Murray, C. 2008 N2 Finglas – Ashbourne Road Scheme. Final Report on Archaeological Excavation of Site 31, Harlockstown, County Meath. Licence: 03E1237. 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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