Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

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

References

O'Flaherty, B. 1987 Fulacht fiadh, Clohoge, Co. Kilkenny. In R.M. Cleary, M. F. Hurley and E. A. Twohig (eds), Archaeological excavations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-82), 53-4. Cork Archaeological Studies No. 1. Department of Archaeology. University College, Cork.

O'Flaherty, B. 1983 Fulacht fiadh, Clohoge, Co. Kilkenny. The archaeology of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline. Unpublished report.