What is recorded here

Eighteen metres of blackened stone and nine water troughs waited beside a small Carlow stream, built for heat and washed clean by running water. People may have stood there in rain, pouring boiling water over marrow, meat or wool until the steam rose white and the air smelled of wet earth. The road took the mound before it could speak further, but the shape remains clear enough to imagine the labour it cost and the hunger it fed.

Partially excavated in advance of construction of the N9/N10 Kilcullen-Waterford Road (Excavation Licence number E2618, area a). One of three fulacht fia (see also CW012-154----and CW012-155----) excavated under the same licence. Adjacent to a small stream, a large, irregularly shaped burnt mound (L 18m; Wth 8m) was uncovered together with nine trough-type features, three of which were connected with sluice channels, and connected to a curvilinear ditch. Leather, worked antler, iron objects, medieval pottery and a wooden composite shovel were recovered. (Hackett, L. 2009, 38) Reference: Hackett, L. (2009) 'Ballybar Lower Burnt mounds, prehistoric activity' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 38 (155). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2010

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