What is recorded here

Mammoth wheels chewed through Mid Cork soil and dropped the first fulachta fiadh into a gravel lake. The second followed within months. The third resisted, but only until winter rain swollen the outlet and carried it away. What remained was a smooth hole in the ground where hot stones once sang. People forgot the name, but the earth kept the shape of the loss.

Shown on 1938 OS 6-inch map on E side of stream. No evidence of site; area flooded by artifical lake in sand and gravel works. Two other fulachta fiadh closeby (CO061-120001-; CO061-121---) also flooded. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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