What is recorded here

Half-buried beside the Pollbrandy stream in Lecarrow, the lost western arm vanished under modern drainage debris while the eastern mound still holds its burnt stones. Someone once heated rocks, dropped them into water, and used the steam for cooking or cleaning. The stream keeps moving, but the broken circle remains a witness to that repeated act of transformation.

Situated on sloping ground on the north-western bank of a mountain stream (Pollbrandy on Ordnance Survey maps) c. 37m NE of MA085-005001- and downslope from it. The original stream course is here intact, but immediately upstream from the monument is the lower end of the modern drain- age channel. A half-destroyed fulacht fia, only the east-north-eastern arm of which survives intact (NE–SW >6.8m, NW–SE 6.8m, H 0.85m max. on NE side). Originally, it appears to have been horseshoe shaped in plan, opening to S towards the stream. All visible surface trace of the west- south-western arm is gone, having been obscured/disturbed by debris from the drainage work. The east-north-eastern mound and the trough area appear intact. However, the trough area shows an exposure of burnt stone on its summit. Burnt stone from the west-south-western arm is also visible in the face of the stream bank. The above description is derived from: New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 2007). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 29 November 2018

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