What is recorded here

Seven charcoal-stuffed pits and one trough-like hole mark the Danesfort fulacht fia, buried in a low basin where heat-shattered stones still crunch underfoot. People likely hauled water forty metres from the nearest pond, heated the rock until it hissed, and dropped it into the pit to boil food, clean tools, or prepare bark for rope. The trough may have held a living creature or a heavy load of plant material while steam rose around the stakes. A later boundary cut through several pits, proving the site survived long enough to be forgotten and reused.

In a low-lying basin within a gently undulating wide landscape. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3460). Seven pits filled with charcoal and heat-shattered stones. One of the pits contained stake-holes and resembled a trough. A pond 40m to the SW was the nearest water source. A post-medieval boundary cut through several of the pits. (Jennings 2008; 2010, 241-2, no. 907) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 26 November 2013

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