Burnt mound in Graig Upper

Burnt mound in Graig Upper, County Cork, Ireland. Wet grassland north of an Cliadh Dubh. A low field holds water after rain. The mound rises forty centimetres above the southern ground, stretching nineteen metres north-south and thirty metres east-west. Its edges blur into the grass. A shallow dip crosses one side, perhaps marking a forgotten trough. Horse hooves broke the surface in places, exposing black soil and chips of stone hardened by fire. People may have heated water there, cooked food or cleaned tools before roads or written history. The mound keeps that heat buried beneath wet grass, waiting for rain to reveal it again.