What is recorded here

Two water boilers, one Bronze Age and one medieval, still hold their shapes in the Grig hollow. People may have heated baths, cooked food or cleaned wool across a thousand years, returning to the same quiet valley because heat and water belong everywhere. The older trough is rectangular and deep, the younger rounded and shallow, as if time itself changed the shape of the vessel.

Situated in a hollow between drumlins. An archaeological excavation (05E0784) carried out as part of the N2 Castleblayney-Clontibret road realignment scheme at a site known as Grig 1 uncovered a rectangular trough (dims 1.5m x 1.25m; D 0.45m) and a sub-circular (dims 1.5m x 1.25m; D 0.25m) trough placed c. 10m apart, the former beneath a small spread of burnt mound material, the latter under a larger spread (dims 6.4m x 5.8m; T 0.2m). A sample from the rectangular trough produced a C14 date of 2690+-30BP that calibrates to 900-800 BC (Halpin 2010, 6-7). A sample from the other trough (MO019-050----), located c. 10m to the NW produced a date at the end of the first and the start of the second millennium AD. It is probable that two fulacht fia, widely separated in time, are represented here, each being matched by a trough of a similar time-period from the two fulachta fia (MO019-049----; MO019-049001-) located c. 130m to the N. (Halpin B. 2008, 312; 2010, 6, 11, V) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 June 2018

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