What is recorded here

Leitra holds two fulacht fia, separate by a hundred metres, because one pot was never enough for the hunger that came down from Castle Lough. The larger mound still carries burnt stone beneath grass, curving like a hand reaching for water, while holly bushes mark its edge as if they had guarded the heat since before memory. A later wall crosses one end, proving people kept returning to the same spot long after the first fire went cold.

In low-lying damp pastureland on the NW side of a small stream which flows SW from Castle Lough. Listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994, SMR file), where two fulachtaí fia are marked. This fulacht fia comprises a linear grass-covered mound (10m NNE-SSW; max. 4m WNW-ESE; max. H 0.8m at E; min. H 0.25m at W) of burnt stone and earth which curves NW at its SSW end. There is a large white stone at the centre of the E edge. Holly bushes grow on the NNE edge. A later NE-SW wall overlies the SW end. There is another fulacht fia (CL010-145----) c. 100m to the NW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 7 June 2023

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