What is recorded here

Two lost cooking pits once stood near the Ballygarvan church, heating water with fired stones before human bodies could be imagined inside them. They vanished without a trace, leaving behind only the memory of steam rising beside a sacred place.

According to O'Leary (1918, 162), 'Windele makes mention of two folacht fiaidh or prehistoric cooking places (see CO086-076----), near the church at Ballygarvan, but no traces of them remains'. Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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