In a field of level rough grazing land to the south of the Curragheen river, the ground shows no visible surface trace of what lies beneath, yet the archaeological record confirms that something was once happening here, something deliberate, repeated, and very old. This is the location of a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking or processing site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dating to the Bronze Age. The usual form involves a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone beside a trough, where water was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it. At Ballinaspig More, that characteristic mound has either been levelled or was never prominent to begin with.

What survives, recorded by Walsh in 1985, is a spread of burnt material, the fractured and blackened stone that accumulates over time when the same process is repeated in the same place. It is modest evidence, but it is enough to place human activity here across a stretch of prehistoric time. Fulachtaí fia are among the most common monument types in the Irish archaeological record, numbering in the thousands nationally, yet individually they tend to be overlooked precisely because they are low, unspectacular, and often in marginal land near water. The presence of the Curragheen river nearby fits the pattern exactly; these sites are almost always found close to a reliable water source.