The qualification matters. A fulacht fia is a type of Bronze Age cooking or processing site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone left over from repeated cycles of heating rocks and dropping them into a water-filled trough. They are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, numbering in the thousands. This particular example, however, exists primarily as a rumour. Local knowledge placed it on this slope; surveyors went looking and could not find it.

The difficulty was not distance or access so much as vegetation. The slope is steep and faces north, meaning it receives little direct sunlight and tends to hold moisture, conditions that encourage exactly the kind of dense, tangled overgrowth that defeated the search. The site was recorded on the basis of local information alone, the physical monument somewhere beneath or behind the growth, unverified and unmapped with any precision. It is the kind of entry that appears in an archaeological inventory not as a confirmed find but as an acknowledgement that the landscape holds more than can currently be seen.