Burnt Mounds by Poundcartron

The three Burnt Mounds of Poundcartron are completely remote, about 500 m in length, northeast of the Maumturk Mountains on the southwest side of the Gleann Glaise in elevation above and along the Bealanabrack River in Connemara in County Galway in Ireland .

Burnt Mounds ( English for burnt hill, in Ireland: ancient cooking place or Irish fulacht fiadh called) are a type of Bronze Age sites on the British Isles . They are interpreted as the remains of breweries, cooking areas, textile production facilities or saunas. Anne-Marie Denvir reckons with 20,000 such places for Ireland. There are more than 2,000 recorded in County Cork alone. In Connemara, however, they are extremely rare with six systems.

description

Fulacht fiadh 1 at the side of a path consists of a semicircular area of ​​about 4.2 × 5.0 m defined by small boulders, in the east and southeast bordering a 1.0 to 1.6 m high grassy hill of 4.2 × 6.5 m, which was damaged by the road construction.

Fulacht fiadh 2 is located on a steep slope and consists of an oval area of ​​around 4.5 m × 3.0 m, defined by a line of small boulders. Here on the valley side there is a 0.6–2.0 m high hill with a diameter of around 6.0 m made of broken sandstone, some quartz and earth. Although there is no creek in the immediate vicinity, there is significant surface erosion.

Fulacht fiadh 3 is also located on a steep slope and consists of a 1.0 to 2.0 m high crescent-shaped, grass-covered hill of around 9.0 × 4.5 m. It is open on the west side, where a small stream flows past.

literature

• Laurence Flanagan : Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts. Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1998.

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '8.9 "  N , 9 ° 40' 20.3"  W.