What is recorded here

Two fulachta fia and this burnt spread mark an old kitchen on the River Gaul plain, where heat and water turned stone into life. Men may have stood here in rain, dropping hot rocks into hollows until steam hissed through the mud, cooking food or cleaning tools before the mines ever cut the land. The drainage ditch took the west edge, but the semicircle remains under hardcore and soil, waiting for someone to imagine the steam rising again.

On level ground in a low-lying plain of the River Gaul. Discovered during the monitoring of the construction of a third tailings pond at Galmoy Mines in 2006 (Excavation licence no. 06E0298). The semicircular remains of a burnt spread (c. 5m x 10m; D c. 0.05-0.1m). Destroyed at W by the insertion of a drainage ditch. . The monument was preserved in situ under a layer of geotextile, a layer of hardcore and topsoil. Two fulachta fia (KK003-043---, Kk003-044----) lie c. 170m to the E. (O’Connor 2006; 2009, no. 1006, 256) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 30 September 2013

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