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Fulacht fia

Towlaght, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Towlaght, 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
Towlaght
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.43970, -7.02777
SMR number
ME047-016----

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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)
  • 1869 · 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 a S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. An area of sub-surface archaeological features was identified by Ian Russell in centre-line testing (02E0108) for the M4 Dublin to Galway motorway and set aside as Towlaght 1. It was completely excavated (02E1145) by Stephen Linnane who revealed a pond dating to c. 1700 and at a different location a spread of burnt mound material. This consisted of a black silty clay with broken and burnt stone and some charcoal content (dims c. 12m x c. 10m; max. T 0.4m) with a line of stones at its W edge providing a kerb. No troughs were revealed, and a date was not derived from the mound material, which is largely preserved outside the road-take. However, a small hearth (dims 0.7m x 0.58m; T 0.15m) c. 50m to the S and undoubtedly unrelated produced a C14 date of Cal AD 720-740. (Linnane 2004, 6-8)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 August, 2019

References

Linnane, S. J. 2004 Towlaght 1. in Carlin, N., Clarke, L., and Fintan Walsh (eds) 2008 The Archaeology of Life and Death in the Boyne Floodplain: the linear landscape of the M4, Kinegad – Enfield - Kilcock motorway. NRA Scheme Monographs 2, vol. 2

Nearby in the register

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

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