What is recorded here

Hot stones hissed in water beside the Curraghcrowly West stream, turning ordinary heat into soup for hunters or neighbours. The kitchen sat less than a quarter mile from Mr. Carey's farmhouse, nestled between an underground passage and an earthen ring-fort. A club-like stone found nearby suggests people still worked the land around that old smell of steam and meat.

Described in 1938 as 'a fulacht-fiadh on the edge of a stream, less than a quarter of a mile [400m] S.W. of Mr. Carey's farmhouse (O.S. 6-inch sheet, Cork, 109). The site is about 250 yards [228.6m] south of the elaborate rock-cut Man-made underground passage [CO109-023----] discovered also by Mr. Carey some years ago and about the same distance north-west of an earthen ring-fort [CO109-024----].' (Anon 1938, 56-7). Despite local enquiries in 2005, this fulacht fia has not been precisely located. A stone club-like implement (L 24.7cm) with a rough cutting edge, was found in the course of ploughing in the vicinity of the fulacht fia (ibid.). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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