Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Grig, County Monaghan, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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 Unpublished Final Report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.