Fulacht fia in Clogh West — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Clogh West holds a shallow oval scar barely ten centimetres deep, packed with fire-cracked stone and charcoal rather than carved by human hands. People may have heated water there for cooking or cleaning, then scattered the wreckage across the ground until only a small hollow remained. The lost heat still smells of smoke and urgency, waiting for someone to remember why the stones flew.

Excavation by Graham Hull (02E1436) 'as part of Bord Gáis Éireann's Pipeline to the West revealed a single shallow depression, roughly oval, measuring 1.38m (north-east/south-west) by 0.95m by 0.1m deep, was excavated. The sides sloped gently down to a roughly flat base. The shallow and uneven form of the depression suggested a natural hollow that had been filled with the remnants of a larger spread. The deposit found in the depression was typical fulacht fiadh material: burnt and fire-cracked stone with frequent charcoal fragments. This discrete deposit of fulacht material may have been one of the 'few shovel-fulls of burned material, well trodden into the ground, and difficult to identify' noted by Coffey (1984).' This description is posted on the web at the following internet address (accessed 3 August 2012): http://www.excavations.ie/ Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 8 August 2012 Reference Coffey, T. (1984) 'Fulachta fiadha in the Burren', The Other Clare 8, 60-3.

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