That, in a way, is precisely the point. This spot in the Smithfield area is believed to mark the site of a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking or processing site found in great numbers across Ireland. Typically, a fulacht fia consists of a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone built up around a trough dug into the ground. Water was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into the trough, and the accumulated debris of broken rock forms the characteristic mound that survives at so many other sites. Here, the mound has gone entirely, levelled at some point before living memory.

The site appears in a 1934 record by Bowman, who noted it on land belonging to a family named Mullane in Glantane townland. That documentary trace is now among the few pieces of evidence that anything was ever here at all. Local knowledge passed the information along, but the ground itself offers no confirmation. The marsh nearby, however, is a telling detail. Fulachtaí fia are found with striking regularity close to water sources, bogs, and wetland margins, and their proximity to such features is thought to reflect both practical necessity and the broader pattern of prehistoric settlement and land use in low-lying terrain.