At Curraghprevin in County Cork, archaeological monitoring carried out ahead of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass brought to light a fulacht fia, one of the most common yet persistently mysterious monuments in the Irish landscape. A fulacht fia is a prehistoric cooking site, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and cracked stone beside a trough, where water was heated by dropping fire-heated stones into it. This particular example was described as "truncated", meaning part of it had already been lost, most likely through centuries of agricultural activity, before anyone had a chance to record it properly.

The site sits on a hillslope roughly 120 metres north of a tributary of the River Bride, a location that fits a well-established pattern: fulachtaí fia are almost always found near water, which was essential to their function. What makes Curraghprevin quietly notable is not the single site in isolation but the clustering. Two further fulachtaí fia lie within 170 metres to the south and south-southwest, suggesting that this stretch of Cork countryside saw repeated, perhaps seasonal, use over a long period. The find was documented by Dunne in 2007 and the monument remains in situ, preserved beneath or alongside the infrastructure built around it.