What is recorded here

Keelhilla holds a compact grass mound where heat and water collided before written memory. Hazel shadows lean from the west, a holy well waits nearby, and hawthorns pierce the edge like witnesses. The mound still distinguishes itself against the ground, preserving the shape of hands that struck stone, filled troughs and changed water into life.

At the interface between an expanse of grassland and a hazel wood, c. 200m E of the foot of the E-facing cliffs of Slieve Carran. There is damp ground immediately to W, and a spring, with a holy well (CL006-023005-), is located c. 40-45m to W within the hazel wood. This fulacht fia is evident as a roughly circular, compact, grass-covered mound (diam. 9-10m; H 0.5-0.8m). In parts where the sod has been eroded, dense concentrations of small limestone fragments, in a matrix of dark grey soil, are visible. The mound is highest and most clearly defined at E–SE. It is lower and more broadly slumped on the W side, possibly indicating the location of the trough. A hawthorn tree grows out of the NE edge of the mound, and a second hawthorn stands close to the mound at S, beside a large boulder which rest on the edge of the mound. The boulder appears to be part of a ruined field wall, on a roughly E–W axis, which skirts the SE–S edge of the mound. Attached image: CL006-023007-_01 fulacht fia viewed from S Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 June 2015

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