What is recorded here

Knockans Lower holds a crescent-shaped fulacht fia beside a spring, its shallow hollow facing the water like a mouth waiting to drink. Long grass and blackthorn have swallowed the mound, forcing anyone who wishes to see the cooking pit to push through scratching stems and damp air. The site belongs to the Burren, where stone and water have always shared work, and the hidden shape suggests people once heated rocks there before carrying soup or steam across the terrace.

On a broad scrub-covered karstic terrace on the lower NW slopes of Knockanes ridge, adjacent to a spring, in the Burren National Park. Listed as fulachta fia in the RMP (1996); a cluster of fulachtaí fia in the area was reported by Tom Coffey (1994) on annotated maps (SMR file). A low crescent-shaped mound (c. 8m ESE−WNW; c. 4.5-5m NNE−SSW; H c. 0.4m) with a shallow central hollow (2.5m N−S; 2m E−W at mouth) open to SE where it faces the spring. The mound is engulfed long grass, ferns and blackthorn scrub, and is difficult to examine and photograph. Another fulacht fia (CL010-143001-) lies c. 50m to the SW on the same terrace. The following image has been uploaded: CL010-143002-_01.jpg View from W Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 November 2021

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