What is recorded here

Hot stones, lifted water, poured back: the trough and mound record repeated heat. People may have cooked, cleaned cloth or prepared a shared meal beside the Nore. Later drainage cut through the work, but the shape still suggests a busy place where water and fire were turned to daily use.

In undulating terrain along the western flood-plain of the River Nore and 75m S of a small stream. This fulacht fia was revealed during archaeological monitoring of a Bord Gáis Éireann gas pipeline development and was subsequently excavated in August 1999 (Stevens 2000, 142; Licence no. 99E0600). The much denuded fulacht fia consisted of patches of a roughly circular burnt mound spread (diam. 12m N-S; 12.5m E-W; D 0.1m), a large sub-circular concave trough (Diam. 2.5-3.6m; D 0.75m) with flat base to the W, a small truncated circular concave trough (diam. 1.5m x 1.3m; D 0.3m) with flat base at the centre and a small pit feature (diam. 1m; D 0.3m) 0.6m S of the larger trough. All these features were partially truncated by modern and post-medieval drainage activity. The fulacht fia appears to have been deliberately decommissioned by pushing the mound material into the troughs. (Stevens 2000, 142) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 July 2018

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