What is recorded here

Coolanarney in County Cork held one of three fulachta fiadh on Denis Noonan's land, where a twenty-foot bog pit sat beside a fourteen-foot planked chamber. Men split deal wood with hatchets to line the heat chamber, creating a kitchen large enough for several people to gather around boiling water. The planking destroyed about 1897, but the pit remained visible beneath the sods when Broker measured it in 1937.

Broker (1937, 14) recorded a fulacht fiadh on Denis Noonan's land 'in bog, 13 feet or sods down. 20 feet diameter: dug out, not removed: 2 feet high, depth unknown. Equally deep and beside it was space 14 x 14 feet planked. Real planks split or dressed with hatchet: like bog deal: destroyed about 1897. In 1892, beside planking but not so deep was found, scooped tree....nice little trough - 9 inches deep'. Exact location not known. One of three fulachta fiadh on same farm (see CO038-092---; CO038-127---). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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