What is recorded here

Seven burnt mounds in Rathcash West and Clohoge lost their troughs to ploughs, leaving only circular spreads of black stone and charcoal in reclaimed marsh. One was excavated for the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline, while the others surrendered their shapes to pasture and time. They are not grand or deliberate in appearance, yet they mark repeated heat, water and human patience on land that keeps changing its memory.

In pasture, reclaimed marsh. O'Flaherty (1983, 16) notes that during fieldwalking in advance of the laying of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline, 'seven fulachta fiadha were discovered in the townlands of Clohoge and Rathcash, Co. Kilkenny. These sites had been ploughed out, but were visible as roughly circular spreads of burnt stone and charcoal'. Five of these monuments were located on an extract of a 6-inch OS map (KK020-075----; KK020-076-----; KK020-077----; KK020-078----; KK029-079-----) (per. comm. Maurice Hurley 1987). A sixth (KK020-039-----) was excavated as it lay within the pipeline corridor (O'Flahery 1987, 45). There is no information on the location of the seventh fulachta fiadha (KK020-013----), its precise location with the townlands of Cloghoge and Rathcash is unknown. As the monuments had no visible troughs they have been reclassified as burnt mounds. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 November 2020

Burnt mound in Rathcash West is a fulacht fiadh, typically dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age. These sites are significant as they provide insight into prehistoric cooking, ritual, or industrial activities in Ireland.

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