What is recorded here

The Clohoge burnt mound is one of seven sites in County Kilkenny where hot stones and charcoal still mark ancient heat. It was the only one excavated because a gas pipeline cut through it, revealing a two-metre-wide spread of burnt material but no cooking trough. The others vanished under ploughs, leaving behind circular scars in reclaimed marsh. People may have gathered there to cook, clean tools or share stories beside water, but the mound keeps that purpose locked inside its black stones.

In pasture, reclaimed marsh. One of seven fulachta fia (KK020-013----; KK020-039----; KK020-075----; KK020-076-----; KK020-077----; KK020-078----; KK029-079-----) noted by O'Flaherty (1983, 16) during fieldwalking in advance of the laying of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline in the townlands of Clohoge and Rathcash, Co. Kilkenny, but the only one excavated as it lay within the pipeline corridor (O'Flahery 1987, 45). All the fulachta fia had been ploughed out, but were visible as roughly circular spreads of burnt stone and charcoal (O'Flaherty 1983, 16). As the monuments had no visible troughs they have been reclassified as burnt mounds. Excavation revealed burnt stone and charcoal spread over a 2m wide area and that the original extent of the mound on the S side was 1.5m, visible as soil discolouration and burnt stone embedded in the boulder clay level (O'Flahery 1987, 45). There were no associated finds and no trough was uncovered, though this may have been outside the limit of the excavation (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 November 2020

Burnt mound (fulacht fia), likely dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age. These sites are significant as they provide evidence of prehistoric cooking, feasting, or ritual activity in the landscape.

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