County: Louth Site name: HILL OF RATH (2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0948
Author: Kieran Campbell, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 705173m, N 778528m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.745768, -6.405502
The base of a subrectangular pit, recorded on the sloping side of a field ditch and below the removed bank and hedge during work on the Northern Motorway (Drogheda Bypass), may be the trough of a destroyed fulacht fiadh. The pit, 0.9m x 1.1m and 0.2m deep, was filled with heat-fractured stones.
6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda
