What is recorded here

No visible basin survives in the hazel scrub above Rathbourney, only the memory of hot stones and waiting water. The place may have been a kitchen, a washing ground or a trap for the careless. Forgetting the exact spot is not a failure; it is the landscape refusing to be owned.

In dense hazel scrub on the steep W banks of a stream on a NW-facing slope overlooking the Rathbourney valley. OS 6-inch maps. A fulacht fia was noted at ITM 522175, 703358 in 1994 by Tom Coffey (SMR file). On inspection in 1998 no fulacht was found at that location possibly due to dense scrub in the area. The precise location remains unknown. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 8 October 2025

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