What is recorded here
Half-buried in rough pasture, the horseshoe mound still holds heat-shattered stone and blackened soil where water once boiled. The open end faces the stream, as if the site still drank from the living water. A ringfort waits a short walk away, suggesting neighbours rather than isolation. The fulacht fia remains a kitchen of the body, not a display for distance.
Situated in rough pasture on a valley floor of bog and rough pasture with a stream/land drain adjacent at SE. A horseshoe-shaped mound (10 NW-SE; c. 12-14m NE-SW), open (Wth 3.5m) to SE, where it abuts a stream or land drain. The trough area (c. 6m NW-SE; c. 5m NE-SW) is well defined and there is evidence of heat-shattered stone and blackened soil. The monument is covered in dense scrub but is otherwise well preserved. A ringfort (CL058-019---) lies c. 155m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney with information supplied by Alison McQueen and Associates
Date of upload: 11 April 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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