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Burnt Mound, Fermanagh is a prehistoric burnt mound, or fulacht fiadh, situated on Kilskeery Group bedrock in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. These monuments typically consist of heaps of fire-cracked stone accumulated around a shallow cooking pit and date to the Bronze Age, though some may have origins in the Neolithic period. The underlying geology of sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate characteristic of the Chesterian deposits would have provided abundant suitable stone for heating and cracking in the cooking process. Such sites are interpreted as temporary or seasonal camps where communal feasting took place, with evidence suggesting water-filled pits were used to cook meat by introducing heated stones. The fulacht fiadh tradition is particularly prevalent in Ireland, where hundreds of examples have been identified across the landscape.
The monument is protected as a scheduled historic monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 10289, recognising its archaeological significance as evidence of prehistoric settlement and subsistence practices in the Fermanagh region.
Burnt mound - fulacht fiadh is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10289. View the official record →
Burnt Mound, Fermanagh is a prehistoric burnt mound, or fulacht fiadh, situated on Kilskeery Group bedrock in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10289.
Burnt mound - fulacht fiadh dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a burnt mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Burnt mound - fulacht fiadh is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 10289.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Platform rath (4 km), Tamlaght. multiperiod church site & graveyard (e.christian-post med.) with cross-carved stone, finial stone & bullaun (4.6 km), Derrybrusk church. medieval church & graveyard (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Burnt mound - fulacht fiadh's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Burnt mound - fulacht fiadh stands on Kilskeery Group, bedrock that formed in the Chesterian. The rock here is sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate.