What is recorded here

Hot stones crashed into water, shaking the trough and filling the low ground with steam. People heated food, cloth or instruments beside the pond, then left the pit to rot and bury itself under centuries of silt. The industrial dig in 2007 opened that forgotten kitchen again, exposing heat-shattered rock and charcoal from nearly a thousand years before Christ.

In low-lying wet ground, to the S of an infilled pond. A spread of heat-shattered stones, under which was a series of pits including a trough, was discovered in 2007 during archaeological monitoring in advance of the construction of an industrial development. Three post-holes were recorded to the NW of the trough and ten stake-holes were to the S of a pit. The trough was c. 4m S of the pond. The pit was irregular in plan and the edges sloped into a second steep-sided pit that probably housed the trough lining. The fill comprised layers of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-rich silt and charcoal. This fulacht fia was radiocarbon dated to 996-920 cal. BC (2804±31) (UBA 8452). A second fulacht fia (CO076-120----) lies c. 220m to the NNW. (pers. comm. Rose M. Cleary) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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