
What is recorded here
Hot stones cracked and hissed beside the stream while people waited for water to boil. Margaret Gowen uncovered that waiting place in 1986 when the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline cut through Garrynderk North. The fulacht fia still belongs to the field, though its stones no longer stand proud.
In pasture 210m E of the townland boundary with Ballynagoul and 10m W of a stream. Excavated hearth (LI047-062002-) lies 5m to SW, ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 110m to SE and moated site (LI047- 064---) 165m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Fulacht fiadh excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed as site 1/5/4 (Gowen 1988, 179). Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 August 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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