What is recorded here

Heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil built a mound on the hill summit near Fermoy, marking a fulacht fia active from 2280 to 1870 cal. BC. People likely heated water for cooking, cleaning or ritual beside the spring well, repeating the work until two successive troughs filled with debris. The mound stands as a record of patient fire, water and human labour long before the bypass cut across the land.

On the summit of a hill, to the SW of a spring well. A mound (13m x 10m; max. D 0.34m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was discovered during archaeological testing in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass and was excavated in 2003. Excavation revealed two successive circular troughs filled with heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. The fill of the primary trough has been radiocarbon dated to 2280-1870 cal. BC. Four additional pits were associated with the mound. Two other fulachtaí fia (CO035-129----, CO035-131----) lay c. 10m and c. 25m to the NE, respectively. (O'Connell 2006h, 59, Burnt Mound 2; 2006i, 63-4) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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