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Fulacht fia in Gurteen (glanarought By.)

Fulacht fia

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Half a horseshoe of burnt stone still curves beside the Glashagoruv tributary, the missing centre surrendered to water. People may have heated stones, drowned them in a wooden trough and drawn up roaring steam to cook food, clean tools or mark a feast. The standing stone a short distance east could have watched that noisy kitchen, while the river took the middle and left two crescent scars behind.
In rough pasture, on the N bank of a tributary of the Glashagoruv River. Two roughly crescent-shaped mounds (W mound: 5.35 E-W; 4.4m N-S; H 0.6m; E mound: 4.4m N-S; 2.2m E-W; H 1m) of burnt material, a short distance apart, are probably the remains of a horseshoe-shaped fulacht fia, the centre of which has been eroded by the stream. A standing stone (KE094-022----) is c. 60m to the E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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