Fulacht na Morrigna

One of the mysterious things that the Morrigan is associated with is called the "fulacht na Morrigna" literally the Morrigan’s cooking hearth. A fulacht is a type of outdoor cooking hearth or pit; the smaller ones were named for the Fíanna but the larger ones for the Morrigan (RIA, 1870). These fulachta were associated both with large outdoor stone cooking hearths and with cooking spits, so…

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