What is recorded here
Hot stones, boiling water, clean meat. The fulacht fia in Dannanstown still lies beneath pasture grass, a broad burnt scar near an old cairn, waiting for someone to imagine the steam rising through Cork rain.
In pasture, on or close to site of cairn (11802). Grass-covered spread of burnt material (c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W).
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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