Cook up a comfortable family home with Fullacht Fia

HANDILY, there’s a Belfast sink and a fully-formed fitted kitchen in Waterfall’s Fullacht Fia – the original of the species was a far more basic affair.

Fullacht fias were late bronze age or neolithic Irish cooking, bathing or possibly dyeing troughs, in which heated stones were placed in excavated mounds to boil water and provide for communal needs. The archaeological remains of several thousands have been uncovered, with a very high percentage dotted around Co Cork.

Fullacht Fia is the name now attached to an altogether more comfortable and private family home out at Ballyleigh, Waterfall, less than a 10-minute drive from the edge of Bishopstown suburb and the city’s south ring road.