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Fulachta fiadh near Lisnaskea, Fermanagh is a pair of burnt mounds representing Bronze Age or Iron Age cooking places. These distinctive horseshoe-shaped mounds, formed from accumulated fire-cracked stone and charcoal-enriched soil, lie on bedrock of the Tyrone Group—a mixed geology of limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone. The presence of chert within the underlying strata may have provided material for stone tools used at the site. These monuments are among hundreds known across Ireland, typically associated with meat processing and communal feasting.
The two mounds occupy ground that would have offered access to water, essential for the fulachtach fiadh technology of heating stones in fires before plunging them into water-filled troughs to boil meat. The surrounding landscape of Fermanagh's drumlin country provided both settlement and resources for Bronze and Iron Age communities. The uncertain status of one mound reflects the challenges of identifying all such sites in the field, as erosion and cultivation alter their appearance.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities under reference 10736, recognising its importance to understanding prehistoric activity and settlement patterns in Ulster. Such sites reveal much about ancient diet, social organisation and technological practice across millennia of Irish prehistory.
Two burnt mounds/ cooking places (fulachta fiadh) is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10736. View the official record →
Fulachta fiadh near Lisnaskea, Fermanagh is a pair of burnt mounds representing Bronze Age or Iron Age cooking places. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10736.
Two burnt mounds/ cooking places (fulachta fiadh) dates from the uncertain period, and is classified as a burnt mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Two burnt mounds/ cooking places (fulachta 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 10736.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Counterscarp rath (4 km), Platform rath (5 km), Rath (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Two burnt mounds/ cooking places (fulachta fiadh)'s history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Two burnt mounds/ cooking places (fulachta 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.