What is recorded here
Sixty metres east of a known fulacht fia, a low burnt mound still lies in a marshy Ballycoony field. Fire-fractured stones and black earth mark its irregular shape, measuring 5.8 metres across and rising only 0.25 metres. People may have heated water there for cooking, cleaning or ritual, then left the broken stones behind. The mound preserves that repeated labour beneath grass and rain.
In a marshy field close to a stream and some 60m to the E of a fulacht fia (GA105-014----). Fire-fractured stones and black earth are evident in this irregularly shaped low burnt mound (5.8m E-W; H 0.25m max).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 November 2019
A burnt mound; likely dating to the Bronze Age. It is associated with a fulacht fia, indicating ritual or domestic activity related to water heating.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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