What is recorded here

Hot stones, water, heat. A kitchen without a chimney where soup bubbled and meat cooked in a ring of fire. People gathered there to eat, talk and remember. The earth kept the shape of the hole while forgetting the names of the people who laughed beside it.

In interior of ringfort (12397). Partially overgrown spread of burnt material. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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