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Fulacht fia

Grig, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Grig, County Monaghan, 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
Grig
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.13536, -6.77490
SMR number
MO019-049001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Fulacht fia: Situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. An archaeological excavation (05E0783) carried out as part of the N2 Castleblayney to Clontibret road realignment scheme at a site known as Grig 2 uncovered the remains of three possible cooking troughs. The pits were shallow and contained concentrations of burnt material. A charcoal sample from the largest pit (dims 2.6m x 2.4m D 0.3m) produced a C14 date of 3755+-30 BP, which calibrates to 2290-2030 BC. Another trough (MO019-049----), located c. 15m to the SE produced a date in the first millennium AD.

It is probable that two fulachta fia, widely separated in time, are involved, each being paired with a trough of the same time period from the two fulachta fia (MO019-050----; MO019-050001-) located c. 130m to the S. (Halpin B. 2008; 2010, 6, 11, XII).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 22 June 2018

References

Halpin, B. 2010: Archaeological Excavation of Development at N2 Clontibret to Castleblayney Road Realignment, Licence No. 05E0783; Site name Grig 2. Unpublished Final Report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Halpin B. 2008, Grig 2 Circular burnt spread/possible kiln. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 312 (No. 1270). Bray. Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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