
What is recorded here
Hot stones, lifting water into steam, marked that field before houses or roads arrived. Paddy Healy dug two fulacht fia sites in Castle Farm in 1990, freeing them from a housing development. They sit east of Kituc Church, waiting to be imagined: people beside burning wood, water shaking into white air, food or baths or ceremony emerging from the heat.
According to Rob Goodbody (pers. comm.) Paddy Healy excavated two fulacht fia sites in Castle Farm in 1990 in advance of a housing development. This site is located to the east of Kituc Church (DU026-0054001-).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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