What is recorded here

Hot stones crashed into water, turning the air to steam and forcing everyone back from the basin's edge. Curraghard kept that violence intact beneath a low mound of burnt material, while a second fulacht fia waited thirty metres northeast. People may have cooked meat, cleaned tools or performed rituals there, but the stones still smell of obedience: heat given up, water changed, and human hands absent from the remembering.

In pasture c. 180m E of standing stone (CO054-026---). Low mound of burnt material; boggy ground to E. Second fulacht fiadh (CO054-027002-) c. 30m toNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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