This one in Aghacoora, County Kerry, offers nothing of the sort. What was once recorded as a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal left behind from heating water in a trough, has vanished entirely from the landscape. No mound, no hollow, no visible trace remains at the surface.

Local information placed the fulacht fia, along with a well, to the east of a nearby ringfort. Fulachtaí fia are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, found in their thousands, and are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though their precise function has been debated, with some scholars suggesting uses beyond cooking, including bathing or textile preparation. The pairing of such a site with a well is not unusual, since water was central to how these monuments worked. The record, drawn from C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey published in 1995, notes only that local knowledge preserved the memory of the site after the physical evidence had already gone. That the well, too, has left no trace compounds the sense of a place that existed more fully in oral tradition than in the ground itself.