What is recorded here

Five thousand years of heat still crackle in the burnt stones of Kiltacky More, where a vast horseshoe trough waits for water that the land itself remembers. The basin sits at the edge of a shallow floodplain, suggesting people once harnessed seasonal rise and fall to cook, clean or transform goods without carrying heavy loads. A holy well nearby implies the site never stopped belonging to human ritual, even after the kitchen fire went cold.

In pasture at the S end of a shallow basin which extends to the NE, the location marked ‘Liable to Floods’ on OS historic mapping. Described by Martin Ryan (1966-1967) and reported to the National Monuments Service in 1996 by Tom Coffey. This large horseshoe-shaped fulacht fia (16.4m NE-SW; 16.4m NW-SE) is defined by a broad, grass-covered bank (Wth 5.9-7.8m; int. H 0.4-1m; ext. H 0.3-1.5m) of burnt and heat-shattered stones which is open towards the SW, and is most substantial at SE. There is a large boulder embedded in the bank at the SW. In the centre is a long, oval-shaped trough area (8.7m NE-SW, 2.1m NW-SE) which extends to the SW perimeter. A small, grass-covered rectangular area (3.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW) of the bank has been dug into at SSE, from which a channel (2.5m NW-SE; 1.5m NE-SW) extends NW into the central trough area. There is a holy well (CL011-002001-) c. 186m to the NNE. See attached image: CL011-002002- View of monument from SW. Reference: Ryan, M. 1966-1967 Fulachta fiadha near Killanaboy, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 218-219. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 January 2023

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