No mound breaks the surface, no stone protrudes, no visible feature of any kind marks the spot. What remains is essentially a coordinate and a memory, the ghost of a fulacht fia recorded because someone thought to look before it disappeared entirely.

A fulacht fia is a type of ancient cooking or processing site, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone beside a trough and a water source. They are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, yet individually they tend to attract little attention. This one in Lisheenowen sits roughly thirty metres north of a stream, the proximity to water being characteristic of the type. It appeared on a 1937 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a mound, meaning it was still physically present within living memory of the current century. By the time the site was formally described, that surface trace had gone. The record of this particular fulacht, along with two companions on the same land, goes back to a 1934 publication by Bowman, who noted all three on ground then belonging to a man named Ed Hayes. The second of the group lies around fifty metres to the east, which gives some sense of how densely this stretch of countryside was once used, even if the landscape now gives nothing away.