What is recorded here

Death and cooking shared one ground in Palmerstown, where a human skull and animal bone lay beside burnt stone within ten metres of a fulacht fia. The mix suggests people ate, remembered and buried near the same hot water place. That proximity turns a ordinary camp into a ceremonial landscape, where food, feast and farewell may have belonged together.

A portion of a human skull, some animal bone and burnt stone was found in a disturbed context within 10m of a fulacht fia (GA083-069----) (information from Prof. Rynne). They are now in the National Museum of Ireland. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 November 2019

A Neolithic fulacht fia site with associated burial material; the presence of a human skull and burnt stone suggests ritual or domestic activity from the Neolithic period. Its significance lies in the rare association of funerary remains with this type of prehistoric cooking or ceremonial site.

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