The example uncovered at Adamswood in County Limerick does not fit that picture neatly. The limestone found throughout its trough and pot-boilers, the shallow pits ringed with angled stake-holes, and the complete absence of a hearth site all point away from cooking and towards something more industrial, most likely the processing of wool, flax, or animal skins. Lime has long been used in the bleaching of textiles, and the stake-hole arrangements suggest frames of some kind, the sort of structure that would make sense for stretching hides, drying wool, or curing fish.

The site came to light not through a dedicated research programme but during the routine monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the route of a Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline running from Goatisland in County Limerick to Gort in County Galway. Archaeologist Emer Dennehy carried out the excavation under licence 02E0669. What she found was a low mound measuring 15.2 metres north to south and 12.5 metres east to west, covering a subcircular trough roughly 2.5 metres by 1.6 metres and just over half a metre deep. The trough had been recut at least once during its working life, and a large dressed triangular stone had been pushed into the remaining original fill to form the southern edge of the recut. Two pot-boilers sat south-east of the trough, and multiple stake-holes, several of them angled in ways consistent with a supporting or tensioning function, were distributed across the surrounding area. The shallowness of the mound itself may mean the site was used only briefly, though later truncation of the ground surface could equally account for it. A stream visible today does not appear on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map, suggesting that the surrounding land was once wetter and was subsequently drained and reclaimed.

The site is no longer visible as an upstanding feature; it was recorded during pipeline construction and is now beneath agricultural land. Its interest lies entirely in the excavation record, accessible through the excavations.ie database. For those curious about the broader landscape, the pipeline corridor between Limerick and Galway proved rich in archaeological finds during this period of infrastructure-driven monitoring, and the Adamswood fulacht sits within a region where prehistoric activity is well attested. The main thing to carry away from this particular site is the reminder that these mounds, often dismissed as Bronze Age cooking spots, were capable of far more varied uses than the standard interpretation allows.