What is recorded here

Burnt mound in Ballingowan (trughanacmy By.) is a low, broken fulacht fiadh beside a River Lee tributary, measuring 6.50m by 8.50m with a west-opening trough sunk below the mound. People may have heated stones there, dropped them into water, and drunk, cooked or cleaned in the sudden steam. The field has ploughed through it since, but the hollow line and burnt remains still mark the place where heat and water met.

'Situated in a large reclaimed field immediately to the east of a small tributary of the River Lee, which was deep ploughed in 1997, are a series of low stone-filled mounds. Boulder clay is obvious where the top of the mound has been denuded, this probably being the result of the sod being turned. Some evidence of burnt stone is apparent.....[the] fulacht fiadh is immediately to the north of an east/west field boundary, and as in the other cases, is substantially destroyed. Its total dimensions are 6.50m N-S by 8.50m E-W and is 0.20m in height. A disturbed central trough area measures 4.00m E-W by 1.00m N-S and opens to the west. The bottom of the trough is 0.40m below the present level of the mound.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 27 April 2012

Burnt mound in Ballingowan is a Bronze Age ritual or industrial site, characterised by heat-shattered stones and associated with water management or ceremonial practices. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early land use and thermal activity in the local landscape.

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