No mound breaks the grass, no scorched stone protrudes from the soil, and the field boundaries that once framed the spot on a map have since been removed. What remains is, essentially, a coordinate and a category.

The category is a fulacht fia, a type of site found in extraordinary numbers across Ireland, particularly from the Bronze Age onwards. The typical form is a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone, built up over repeated episodes of the same activity: stones heated in a fire, dropped into a water-filled trough, and used to bring that water to a boil, most likely for cooking meat. The mounds survive so well in some places because burnt and shattered stone is of little use to anyone and tends to stay where it falls. At Curragh, whatever mound once existed has been levelled completely, leaving the site archaeologically recorded but physically gone.