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Fulacht fia in Ballyganner South

Fulacht fia

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Half a kilometre of open sky presses down on the kidney-shaped mound at Ballyganner South, where water and heat may have turned ordinary days into shared ritual. A later field wall now crosses one arm, marking how human ambition keeps rewriting older devotion. The grass hides sharp stone edges, inviting hands to feel the shape of forgotten labour before retreat into memory.
At the top of a broad hill in pasture, with wide views all around. Within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This grass-covered fulacht fia comprises a kidney-shaped mound (14.5m NE-SW; 11.5m NW-SE) which is open to the NW and partly encloses a fairly level area (6m NE-SW; c. 3m NW-SE). The NE arm (3.5m NE-SW; 3.4m NW-SE; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) extends farther than the SW arm (5m NE-SW; 1.6m NW-SE; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) and a later drystone field wall runs over it. There is a cairn (CL009-059075-) c. 7m to the SW. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-191----_01.jpg View from SW Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 July 2022

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