Fulacht fia in Grig — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Hot stones, cold water, and hunger. That is all a fulacht fia needs. Grig holds three shallow troughs on an east-facing slope, two of them separated by centuries yet paired across a hundred and thirty metres of grass. One pit smouldered in the Early Bronze Age, another in the late eighth or ninth century, proving that people returned to the same water and stones long after the first fire died.

Situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. An archaeological excavation (05E0783) carried out as part of the N2 Castleblayney to Clontibret road realignment scheme at a site known as Grig 2 uncovered the remains of three possible cooking troughs. The pits were shallow but they contained concentrations of burnt material. A sample of charcoal from one (dims 1.5m x 1.5m; D 0.3m) of the two closely placed pits produced a C14 date of 1130+- 30 BP, which provides a calibrated date of AD 780-990. A sample from another pit (MO019-049001-), located c. 15m to the NW, produced a date in the Early Bronze Age. It is probable that two fulachta fia, widely separated in time, are involved, each being paired with a trough of the same time period from the two fulachta fia (MO019-050----; MO019-050001-) that are located c. 130m to the S. (Halpin B. 2008; 2010, 6, 11, XII). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 22 June 2018

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