
What is recorded here
Knockaneacoolteen holds a horseshoe of burnt stone beside a living stream, marking a place where heat, water and patience met. The mound still rises slightly above the wet pasture, preserving the shape of repeated labour rather than a single grand event. People may have gathered there to cook, clean or transform ordinary things into useful ones, trusting the boundary between fire and water to do its quiet work.
In wet pasture. A horseshoe-shaped mound (8.5m E-W; 4m N-S; H c. 0.35m) of burnt material. The opening (4.7m E-W; 2.4m N-S) faces S. A stream borders the fulacht fia immediately to the E. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey)
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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