What is recorded here

Melted butter and clean metal may have circled that trough before breakfast, but the western opening still faces the road like an invitation. Hot stones screamed when water struck them, filling Ballyryan with steam and forcing everyone to smell the kitchen before seeing it. The mound keeps its shape because people kept returning, feeding the hole and carrying the finished work elsewhere.

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

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