Overview
Fulacht fia in Ballyryan is recorded as Fulacht fia at Ballyryan. It preserves evidence of a place where water was heated with fire-cracked stones, leaving burnt material and often a trough. The source record also describes the surviving evidence; its details are kept below.
Who lived here and when
The record identifies Fulacht fia in Ballyryan as Fulacht fia. It does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.
Homes and daily life
The recorded type points to a place where water was heated with fire-cracked stones, leaving burnt material and often a trough. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.
What was found
The saved source says: A horseshoe-shaped mound (est. dims. 9.1m E-W; 8.7m N-S) opening to the W. The greater part of the mound is at E (Wth 5.1m; H 0.8-0.9m). The mound narrows from N (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) to S (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) and decreases in height towards the W. A line of stone along the inner W extent of the mound visible at N and from NE to SSW may have been intended to prevent the mound material from falling into the oval area which likely contained the trough (dims. 2-5m E-W, c. 2m N-S). A smaller mound of material (Wth 1.5m; H 0.1-0.3m) is located further to the W (1.4-2m). An unclassified megalithic tomb (CL004-085----) lies c. 60m to the NW. The following image has been uploaded: CL004-085002-_01.jpg View from NW Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 5 December 2022
Why it ended
The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.
Why it mattered
Fulacht fia in Ballyryan fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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