Fulacht fia, Tooreenglanahee, Co. Cork

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Fulacht fia, Tooreenglanahee, Co. Cork

Beside a stream in North Cork, beneath a bridge and the hooves of cattle, lies what may once have been a Bronze Age cooking site, though you would never know it to look at the place.

There is no visible surface trace, no marker, no mound. The ground is wet and churned, and the archaeology, if it survives at all, is buried under centuries of ordinary rural use.

A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking or processing site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and fire-cracked stones beside a water source. The usual method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. At Tooreenglanahee, burnt material was recorded close to a stream and under a bridge, roughly 130 metres west of a related site. More intriguingly, a wooden trough was said to have been found here around 1954. Wooden troughs are the perishable heart of such sites, rarely surviving, and their discovery is uncommon enough to be significant. The find was noted locally rather than through formal excavation, which means the detail belongs to that particular category of Irish archaeological knowledge: passed down, plausible, and impossible now to fully verify.

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