Show ancient cooking pi pits unearthed in ireland it Is reported that nine if cooking pits have recently been discovered in the following places around kinsale ireland ball into ber Cool corrin Rin grone Tig saxon Kip scilly glen and Cl ashmore townshend in his statistical survey of the county cork mentions that in that part of ireland heaps of burnt stones are found in greet numbers number which are said to have been used by the alie inhabitants in ancient times tor for cooling cooking their victuals keating heating in his history of ireland refers to the mode ot of cooking lie he says the nn an clent inhabitants were in the habit of digging two large pits one of which was for washing the other tor for cooling stones heated red hot were thrown in and upon these were laid the meat bound in green bulrushes bul rushes upon this again was waa placed another heap of hot stones and so on until the required quantity was disposed of mon montreal treat family herald |