What is recorded here

Six stone troughs emerged in Rathpatrick when marshy ground was drained in 2018, revealing a forgotten kitchen where heat and water turned raw flesh into sustenance. The largest stretches seventeen metres across a charcoal-rich mound, its cracked stones still holding the vibration of ancient fires. People may have gathered there beside the hidden stream, sharing food and stories while steam rose from the wet earth. What was lost under reeds and turf for centuries returned only when the field was forced to give up its secret.

In flat, low-lying terrain on a slight rise of ground immediately NE of a stream, now covered, running NW-SE. Ground formerly very wet and marshy but reclaimed early summer 2018 when the field was drained and seeded with grass. This and five other fulachta fiadh (KK008-204----; KK008-205----; KK008-206----; KK008-207----; KK008-208----) were exposed during the reclamation work. They form a roughly linear alignment along the NE bank of the stream. Fulacht fia (KK008-204----) is 7m to the SW. Visible as a low mound (dims. 17m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW; H 0.47m) of small fire-cracked stones in a charcoal rich matrix, partially covered by ploughed up turfy sod with the remains of reeds. The trough appears to be facing SW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 September 2018

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