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Burnt Mound (Fermanagh) is a prehistoric burnt mound, or fulacht fiadh, situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. These distinctive archaeological features typically comprise crescent-shaped mounds of fire-reddened stones mixed with charcoal and ash, and represent the remains of ancient cooking or water-heating sites. The monument lies on bedrock belonging to the Tyrone Group, a geological formation of Visean age consisting of limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with subordinate deposits of chert, coal and conglomerate, a composition that would have provided readily available stone for the construction and use of such facilities.
Burnt mounds of this type date principally to the Bronze Age and are believed to have served practical purposes in food preparation, particularly the boiling of water and cooking of meat through the heat-stone method, whereby heated rocks were dropped into water-filled troughs. The monument at this location, protected by the Historic Environment Division of Northern Ireland under reference 9577, survives as a tangible record of prehistoric settlement patterns and subsistence practices in the Fermanagh region.
Burnt mound / fulacht fiadh is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9577. View the official record →
Burnt Mound (Fermanagh) is a prehistoric burnt mound, or fulacht fiadh, situated in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 9577.
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 9577.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Eagles' knoll cairn, giant's grave. passage tomb (5.5 km), Ring cairn (5.5 km), Rath (5.7 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:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Burnt mound / fulacht fiadh stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.