What is recorded here

Five fulacht fia are scattered across the flat marshy ground at Garr, each a low horseshoe of burnt stone and black soil with a waterlogged trough open to the sky. They sit between good pasture and bog, near a graveyard, as if people came here to heat water, cook food or cleanse something before returning to the living fields. The repeated shape suggests a place used often, not a single forgotten accident.

Small horseshoe shaped mound (H c. 0.50m, max E-W dims 8.20m) with trough orientated NNW. Some burnt stone and black soil visible. Similar site (OF004-017----) 8m to the W and a further one to the NNE. On low-lying flat marshy land between good pasture land and bog with graveyard to S (OF004-002----). Grass covered horseshoe-shaped mound (8m N-S; 10.5m E-W; H 0.2m) of burnt material with central waterlogged depression (2.5m by 3m) open to NNW. Second fulacht fiadh 6m to the NE. One of a group of five fulachta fiadh The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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