10th July 2012, 01:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 10th July 2012, 04:12 PM by CARTOON REALITY.)
'it was their custom to send their attendants about noon with whatever they had killed in the mornings hunt to an appointed hill, to kindle raging fires thereon, and put in them a large number of stones; and to dig two pits in the yellow clay of the moorland, and put some meat on spits to roast before the fire: and then to bind another portion of it with grasses in bundles. And set it to boil in the larger of the two pits, and keep plying with stones that were in the fire, making them seethe often until they were cooked. And these fires were so large that their sites are seen today in Ireland burnt to blackness and these sites are called filacht fian by the peasantry meaning cooking places.'
Just another interesting detail of pits in pairs. Recorded by Geoffrey Keating's in the early 17th century. The original source for this passage now sadly lost.
Just another interesting detail of pits in pairs. Recorded by Geoffrey Keating's in the early 17th century. The original source for this passage now sadly lost.