What is recorded here

Fulacht fia is an ancient cooking pit where hot stones dropped into water brought liquids to a rolling boil. In Reacaslagh the remains appear as burnt black earth and shattered red stone, exposed when a landowner cut a drain through the ground. That simple act revealed a low mound stretching seven metres east to west, preserving the shape of a place where people once fed themselves or others. The drain became an accidental archive, holding a slice of busy human life in soil and stone.

The monument was described in 1987 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as 'burnt black earth and burnt shattered red stone' which had been discovered by the landowner during the digging of a drain. The material is still visible 'to a depth of 1.2m in the western side of the drain'. According to the Castleisland Survey, a 'low mound runs in an east to west direction from the western side of the drain itself for a distance of 7.3m' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022

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