What is recorded here

Melt butter, boil eggs, bake bread, heat water for washing or brewing. Drop hot stones into the basin and listen for the roar of steam. The fulacht fia is a cooking and washing machine built from fire, water and patience.

In pasture. Spread of burnt material (12m N-S; 8m E-W). Ringfort (12899) immediately to ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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