What is recorded here

On a gentle S-facing slope of rough grazing and outcropping rock from which numerous small spring wells emerge. Immediately NW of a fulacht fia (CL003-028001-). A low rectangular grass-covered mound of burnt stone (overall dims. 9m NW–SE x 4m; max. H 0.9m). A small spring well enclosed by low drystone walling lies 2m to its N. Another burnt mound (CL003-028003-) lies c. 10m SW and another fulacht fia (CL003-028002-) is c. 50m N. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

Burnt mound in Abbey West is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking or processing site, typically dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age. Its association with spring wells suggests it may have had ritual or domestic significance in the local landscape.

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