What is recorded here

Fulacht Fiadh is a burnt stone cooking site in County Cork, Ireland. It is a semicircular mound of scorched material beside a spring and field drain. People may have heated stones, dropped them into water, and cooked food or cleaned tools there. The mound still marks the place where heat, water and daily life met.

In copse of conifers, to NW of spring. Semicircular mound of burnt material (L 6.85m; Wth 7m; H 1.5m) survives on E side of drain and field fence; remainder of mound probably destroyed by drain and lowering of field level on W side of drain. 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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