What is recorded here

Hot stones cracked and hissed in the Ballylinnen trough while people waited for water to boil. They may have cooked food, cleaned wool or gathered for ceremony beside the lost spring. The horse-shoe mound still holds fire-worn rock and dark soil on the east-facing slope.

On an E-facing slope just below the crest of a hill, in upland terrain, under pasture. There is a fair view to the N and extensive to the E and S but it it impeded by the hill crest to the W. Listed as a fulacht fia by Prendergast (1977, 1 (4), 267). A roughly horse-shoe shaped mound, though the W end is formed by the slope of the hill. The mound material of the fulacht is mainly to the N (dims. 8m x 12m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.3m) and S (dims. 12m x 12m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) of the trough (dims. 3m x 4m), though it does spread across the downslope on the E side where both mounds meet. Mound material composed of darker soil than in surrounding field and fire-cracked stones, though there is no charcoal evident in small under-sod area that was examined. There was probably a spring here, now dried up, with an old water channel running eastward downslope from the fulacht. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 November 2017

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